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On Defenders and Defendresses Day, the “Veteran Sport” program was suspended.
Veterans will not receive the October payments of 1500 UAH, and a new phase of the program will not be launched this month. The Ministry of Veterans Affairs explains that the program’s funds have been exhausted. The benefits were used more than 800 thousand times: eight times the number the ministry had planned.
In veterans’ chats today an ironic “thank you” for this holiday greeting is spreading.