Ukraine has received more than €2 billion ($2.2 billion) in funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Wednesday on the messaging platform Telegram. The tranche is part of an ongoing loan programme amounting to some €15 billion, Shmyhal said. It will be used to fund vital government expenditure such as welfare spending and salaries for state employees, including doctors and teachers, he said. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kiev has received more than €80 billion in aid from foreign partners for its government expend…