Government fulfilled the promise to the families of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and allocated funding for the purchase of a firearms examination microscope

In execution of an appeal of members of families of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated UAH 5.8 million for the purchase of a microscope for Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise to conduct firearms examinations.

At its meeting on Friday, the Government adopted a decree "On the allocation of funds to purchase a comparison microscope for forensic expertise", which provides for the allotting to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine the sum worth UAH 5.8 million  from the Reserve Fund of the State budget for the purchase for Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise a comparison microscope for forensic expertise, including ballistic.

The approval of this decision was the result of the meeting of Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman with the families of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred with participation of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on  February 20.

"They appealed to the Government, to me personally, so that we would allocate funding for the purchase of this equipment. I promised them then that we would resolve this issue within a month. Now to fulfill this promise there is a corresponding decision elaborated by the Ministry of Economic Development that stipulates for the allocation of relevant financial resource", explained Volodymyr Groysman.

The Prime Minister instructed line Ministers to personally control the signing and implementation of this decision as soon as possible.