OREANDA-NEWS. August 23, 2010. Ministry of Defence over the next five years plans to ensure maximum military housing. The Defence Minister of Ukraine Mikhailo Ezhel emphasized at a briefing at Government House.

Mikhailo Ezhel reminded that today almost 45 thousand soldiers are in line to receive appartments. According to him, the ministry gives special attention to solving the housing problem in the industry and for this the next 5 years a number of programs are developed.

Mikhailo Ezhel reported that this year the ministry plans to issue 2000 apartment orders for military, while last year only 85 apartments orders were issued. As he said, today the ministry is trying to solve the problem by fitting houses 70% ready, and housing in return for the transfer of assets to local authorities. "We have allocated 55 million UAH to complete construction of houses in Feodosia. Now we will be completing the houses in the Vasylkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Mykolaev - the Minister said.

Mikhailo Ezhel said that the ministry is also trying to solve the housing problem by transfering departmental land to developers: "we can get 35-40% of housing through those funds that we gave, and this program only begins to work."

Moreover, as noted by the Minister, today the main issue for the ministry is to provide housing to military: "For this we need to build about 9000 apartments per year. Such a program exists. I think we will solve this problem" - he assured.