PM in Dnipropetrovsk told about a new project on providing free legal aid to ATO participants

On Tuesday, July 21, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk is on a working visit to Dnipropetrovsk.

The Prime Minister along with Justice Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko visited a Dnipropetrovsk free legal aid center.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the work of the center is focused not only on helping the poor, but also on providing assistance to ATO participants: "In order to register them, to give them a plot of land as soon as possible, faster and fully provide social guarantees they need."

On July 20, representatives of the Dnipropetrovsk center, justice department in Dnipropetrovsk region, representatives of medical institutions and military units signed a memorandum that would provide a qualified legal assistance to ATO participants.

Thanks to that every soldier, who took part in the ATO, is being treated in a hospital or served in Dnipropetrovsk units, will be able to receive free protection of lawyers or advice.

For the provision of such assistance it will be established mobile teams that will travel to medical establishments and units of Dnipropetrovsk region.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk also noted that more than three thousand people appealed to 100 centers of free legal aid across Ukraine over first 13 days of their work.

Director of the Coordination Center for Legal Aid of the Justice Ministry Andrii Vyshnevsky informed that these citizens received aid, particularly in civil and administrative matters, questions of enforcement of judgments, housing, inheritance and social security matters.

In the framework of his working trip to Dnipropetrovsk, Arseniy Yatsenyuk together with Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov is to visit the military unit of patrol police Dnipro-1.