All families of fighters killed in ATO area will receive UAH 609,000 – resolution

15:58, 06.11.2014 1 min read

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has equated the sum of payment to the families of fighters killed in the ATO area regardless of the division they served at and the payment will amount to UAH 609,000, Minister of the Cabinet Ostap Semerak has said.

"We have passed the resolution that equalizes all payments to families, whose breadwinners were killed in the ATO area, regardless of the military units they served at," he told reporters in Kyiv.

"According to the law UAH 609,000 was paid to the families of killed servicemen who served at the Ministry of Defense, and all others had less. Now we have raised the payments," the minister said.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatseniuk at a cabinet meeting on November 5 said that now the family of a soldier, who was killed during the ATO, receives UAH 609,000, and the family of a law enforcement officer, who also gave his life for the country in the ATO area, gets UAH 150,000, "and this is not fair."