The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has decided to invest $15 million in the direct investment fund to support small and medium-size enterprises (SME) in Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.

"The International Finance Corporation has decided to invest $15 million in the direct investment fund to support SME in Ukraine. I am sure that this step would give a new incentive to develop to Ukrainian businessmen and the economy," he wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.

He said that assistance to legal business for the sake of the economic growth is a priority for the government.

"Businessmen create the national product and push the economy forward," the prime minister said.