Over 5,000 Zaporizhzhia residents get ATO participant status
Ukrinform
A total of 5,016 residents of Zaporizhzhia region, who served in ATO area in Donbas, have acquired a status of participant of combat actions.
Director of region’s department on social protection of population, Ihor Mischan said this at a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“A total of 5,015 Zaporizhzhia residents, who were in the area of combat actions, received a status of participant of combat actions. Another 83 got a status of disabled war veteran, five of them received the first degree of disability, and 14 people – the second degree of disability,” Mischan said.
According to him, the acquired status gave the right for a range of benefits to servicemen and their families.
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