Ukraine’s new government must fully implement the International Monetary Fund’s financial assistance program and undertake “painful reforms,” the country’s former Finance Minister, Natalie Jaresko, said on April 14.

Jaresko spoke at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council hours after learning she had lost her job in a government shakeup—the most significant since 2014—marked by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s resignation and the appointment of a new cabinet of ministers headed by Volodymyr Groysman as the new Prime Minister.

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Image: “A new Ukrainian government must stick to the IMF program and implement it fully, including painful reforms, such as continuing to increase gas tariffs,” Ukraine’s former Finance Minister, Natalie Jaresko, said at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council on April 14. (Atlantic Council/Victoria Langton)