Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said the country’s Social Insurance Fund had ceased operations to reduce “extra government spending”. Shmyhal announced this at a government meeting, reports DEA News.
“We continue with social reform. With the decision of the government, we terminate the activities of the Social Security Fund as required by law and incorporate it into the Pension Fund. “We are systematically reducing unnecessary government spending,” he said.
The Prime Minister believes that such a measure would make the social support mechanism “more efficient and effective, adapted to today’s realities”.
Earlier, Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine has allies and partners. to send About $1.5 billion to support the Ukrainian energy system. The prime minister of Ukraine stressed that additional equipment is delivered to Ukraine every day to repair the damaged energy infrastructure.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.