The date of 11 December marks a year since the Action Programme for the Government of Ukraine was adopted. The Prime Minister announced that on this day the Government of Ukraine was to report at the Verkhovna Rada what had been done, "what has been accomplished, in what we succeeded, where we failed, and what should be done for the future." Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk told in an interview with Ukrainian TV channels on Friday, December 4.

In addition, throughout the next week all members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will be separately reporting on the results of the activities of each particular Ministry.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the Government had managed to fully fund the Ukrainian Army throughout the year, "which should actually be designed from scratch".

"We have not withheld a single copeck of salaries or pensions for the Ukrainian citizens. We have restructured multibillion debts not having been taken by us, but we had to take an executive decision on restructuring and writing off these debts", he added.

Due to the efforts of the Government Ukraine has practically abandoned gas dependence on the Russian Federation: "We are ready to endure the winter".

"We have prepared all the reforms for 2016. We have managed to preserve the coalition – despite the difficulties that we have inside the parliamentary coalition. And it’s natural as politics doesn’t resemble smooth crop field - each political force has certain political priorities. And especially before the local elections there had actually emerged a lot of ideas to earn electoral support in local ballot. But despite the complexity of laws that had to be endorsed, including on the fight against corruption, on a visa-free regime, we had meetings, sometimes in a very tense atmosphere, but the screen showed 226 votes", stressed the Head of Government.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk reminded in the current year, the Government had raised social standards by 13-19%: "Salaries and pensions have been increased for 12.5 million Ukrainian citizens. Although in the beginning of the year, communicating with citizens, I said that the situation was rather difficult and we could not promise the improvement of social standards. But we have earned, and that is why in September of this year we improved welfare standards".

For the next year the Government offers social standards rising by 12%, he said.

In the current year for needs of national security and defence there has been allocated 90 billion hryvnia – "this is an unprecedented amount": "For the next year we propose to add another 10 billion hryvnia".

"We have not reduced expenditure on education and medicine. And in the consolidated budget, this budget expenditure remains up to the mark", he stressed, noting that "it's not just the cost, but primarily how these funds are used".

"Therefore, the policies in each sector should be in the following dimension. We provide funding, and each relevant Minister provides policy. Policy on quality healthcare, education, and strong Armed Forces of Ukraine, fully compliant with NATO standards. Including in terms of logistics and use of this funding", stressed Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Regarding the overall concept of the state budget for next year, the Head of Government accentuated that it should correspond to the cooperation programme with the International Monetary Fund: "Under this program there are signatures of the President of Ukraine, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Minister of Finance and the Chairman of the National Bank. And this program is not just for the sake of the program. The program makes up the reform plan. And it is for the reform plan, that we obtained two tranches from the International Monetary Fund".