The Ukrainian government will pay the veterans the anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war more than 42 million dollars, said on Thursday the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
"The total expenditure of the state budget - 882 million (42, $ 4 million at the current exchange rate of the national Bank), and it is for this reason I ask the Minister for social policy in conjunction with the" Ukrposhta ", it may 8-9 money came specifically to each person ", - said Yatsenyuk during the meeting of the organizational Department for the preparation and celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory.
Yatsenyuk explained that the maximum amount of funds provided for payments to the disabled of the 1st group - 2835 hryvnia (about $ 130) and those who have special merits before the Motherland. According to Yatsenyuk, the remaining payments will be paid out categorised as disabled, members of families of the deceased and present war.
at the end of March, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko has established in Ukraine a new annual holiday - Day of memory and reconciliation, which will be celebrated on 8 may. And on may 9, Ukraine will honor the veterans of the great Patriotic war, Poroshenko explained. According to his statement, " may 9 remains, 8 and 9 may unite the country." The leader ordered the 8 and 9 may be held in Kiev and other cities and towns of the events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism.
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