Honcharuk: Cabinet allocates Hr 1.4 billion to help veterans, victims of Nazi persecution

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Feb. 19, 2020. Updated Feb. 19 at 2:54 pm

People put stones to a monument to the Jewish victims of the Babyn Yar massacre. In just two days on Sept. 29-30, German Nazi murdered 33,771 Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated Hr 1.3 billion for the implementation of financial assistance to more than 1 million veterans and victims of Nazi persecution, said Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk.

“More than 1 million veterans and victims of Nazi persecution will receive financial assistance from the state,” Honcharuk wrote on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.

According to him, each person will receive from Hr 570 to Hr 4,120, which is on average 7% more than last year.