Draft Law No. 7198 on compensation for destroyed and damaged housing was signed by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, MP, head of the Servant of the People party Olena Shuliak said.

"Already in May, people will start receiving first compensation. There is still a long way to go, but we will definitely pass it! With the help of the civilized world, we will defeat our enemies, rebuild and live in a large, free, European country," she wrote on Facebook.

According to estimates, more than 1 million Ukrainians are left homeless today. As of the beginning of March, Ukrainians have already submitted 335,000 applications for damage or destruction of housing through the Diia portal. The current volume of declared destruction is about 23 million square meters, while most of all declared in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions. More than 500 communities have already been registered in the register of damaged property, and data on 10,000 objects have been entered.

Earlier, Shuliak reported that the state already had UAH 17 billion, precisely from the sources provided for by bill No. 7198 for compensation.