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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has promised that the level of social payments to veterans will grow in 2013.

“The level of social assistance to veterans, which rose in 2012, will
continue growing next year,” he said at a meeting with representatives
of the second all-Ukrainian forum of veterans in Kyiv on Monday.

Azarov said that from January 1, 2013 special benefits would be
introduced for disabled war veterans of the second and third groups, as
well as combatants in the Second World War, at the level of benefits set
for disabled war veterans of the first group.

In addition, he said that the social protection of veterans would be
strengthened as part of preparations for marking the 70th anniversary of
Victory Day.