Ukraine’s largest foreign backers won’t lend to Ukraine without serious progress on key reforms, including the fight against corruption, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund have made clear in interviews with the Kyiv Post.

The EU will review the possibility of a new financial assistance program only after Ukraine fulfills the IMF’s longstanding conditions: Privatization and the creation of an independent anti-corruption court, changes to pension reform and the 2018 state budget and bringing Ukraine’s gas prices in line with global markets.