OREANDA-NEWS The EU Council on Monday approved the next tranche of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine for 3.5 billion euros promised earlier by the European Commission, the Council said in a statement.

"Ukraine will receive about 3.5 billion euros in the near future after the EU Council approves the third payment under the EU fund for Ukraine," the document says.

At the end of February, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at a joint meeting of the Board of European Commissioners with the government of Ukraine in Kiev, said that the EU would send Ukraine the next tranche of macro-financial assistance in the amount of 3.5 billion euros in March.