The Cabinet of Ministers focused on priority spheres and gave up on auxiliary expenses when it drew up the draft national budget for 2018, Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported.

"Next year it is planned that the economy would grow by 3%. We would like to have a larger figure, but this is not bad. This gives the required funds. We have the real increase in expenses in the key spheres. We do not waste money for auxiliary things. Then we can fully finance healthcare, education reform and pension reform," he said after the government meeting on Friday.

Danyliuk did not specify the auxiliary spending that was not included in the budget spending.