OREANDA-NEWS. August 11, 2008. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has passed an unprecedented decision on compensation of losses to people who suffered from the recent floods, First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov said in the course of a selector conference with heads of the accident-hit regions.

By the scale of the loss, the flood victims will be divided into three categories.

The first category includes people whose housing was completely destroyed and who will get advance payments of UAH 50,000 from the national budget. The second includes peoples whose houses need capital repairs and who will thus receive UAH 20,000. And the third one includes people with partially destroyed housing, to whom UAH 5,000 will be paid.