Timothy Ash retorts from London: “

Timothy Ash retorts from London: “The danger with this official line that things are fine on the IMF front is that politicians are lulled into a false sense of security, when the reality is that this Fund program is in serious trouble. Someone needs to read the riot act to the Zelenskiy Administration that unless they address the mounting list of issues related to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the anti-corruption agenda more generally, independent supervisory boards at state companies, PrivatBank and the banking reform issue, then there will be no more IMF money from the Fund or other official creditors – and you can only string the market along so long with warm words.”