Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on amendments to some laws of Ukraine regarding the provision of pensions for certain categories of people from among participants in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO), the president's press service reported on Wednesday.

The document amends the law on compulsory state pension insurance. It gives right to appoint old-age pension upon reaching 55 years of age for military men, 50-55 years of age for military women who were directly involved in the ATO in the area of its holding provided that men have at least 25 years of pensionable service, women – at least 20 years.

The same right will be granted to those who participated in military actions to defend the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine as part of volunteer units, which are included in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Interior Ministry, the National Guard and other lawful military formations and law enforcement agencies, as well as soldiers (reservists and conscripts), regular servicemen and volunteer soldiers who have become disabled due to an injury or a shell-shock received in the ATO.

Their wives or husbands, if they have not remarried, and parents of the above categories of citizens, who were killed or disappeared, or died as a result of an injury or a shell-shock received while participating in the ATO or its organization are also given the right to the above-mentioned early old-age pension.

This law will come into force one month after its publication.