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Ukraine faces a budget deficit amid continued fighting, which leads to the need to optimize government spending.
More than four thousand civil servants in Ukraine will be laid off to save the budget. The decision to carry out layoffs in the state apparatus was announced by the country's Prime Minister Sergei Koretsky.
According to the official, against the background of the budget deficit, more than four thousand positions in the central executive authorities will be cut.
“As part of the optimization and increase in the efficiency of the state apparatus in the central executive authorities, it is planned at the first stage to reduce more than four thousand vacant positions,” he wrote on the Telegram channel.
In total, the number of deputy ministers will be reduced by almost 20 percent, and the number of deputy heads of other central executive authorities will be reduced by 18.
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Against the background of the budget deficit in Ukraine, it is planned to cut more than 4 thousand positions in the central executive authorities, as well as reduce the number of deputy ministers and heads of departments.