The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has decided to withdraw from the Agreement on the procedure for pensions for military personnel and members of their families and state insurance of military personnel of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The relevant resolution of December 23, 2022. No. 1425 published on the Government Portal.

The agreement guaranteed pensions and compulsory state insurance for military personnel of the Armed Forces of the CIS member states and other military formations created by the legislative bodies of these states, the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth, the Armed Forces and other military formations of the former USSR, as well as pensions for the families of these military personnel.

According to the Agreement, the costs of pensions for military personnel and their families and compulsory state insurance of military personnel were carried out by the participating States at the expense of their budget without mutual settlements between the states..

The agreement has been active until recently. In particular, this issue was controlled at the level of the leadership of the Pension Fund of Ukraine. This can be seen on the example of one of the resolutions of the Pension Fund of Ukraine " It was, in particular, about military pensioners.

At the same time, in June 2022, the terrorist country of the Russian Federation itself withdrew from the interstate pension agreement. The denunciation law was signed. This was motivated by the fact that over the past 30 years pension legislation has already changed significantly in all countries that have signed an agreement, and that a new format of cooperation needs to be sought.. At the same time, it was not hidden that the main purpose of breaking the deal is to save money..

As explained then in the Pension Fund of Ukraine, from June, citizens from the CIS countries who moved to Russia will no longer be able to count on a full-fledged pension if they do not have Russian experience. Experience acquired in the signatory countries of the agreement will not be taken into account.

After the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine also denounced a significant number of agreements with the CIS, as well as bilateral agreements with Russia and Belarus..

And even if officially any agreements remained in force, they actually did not work.. This also applies to pension agreements, such as the aforementioned Agreement on the procedure for providing pensions to military personnel and members of their families or the Interim Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the Russian Federation on guarantees of the rights of citizens who worked in the regions of the Far North and areas equivalent to regions of the Far North.. in the field of pension provision of January 15, 1993.

Thus, the withdrawal of Ukraine from the Agreement on the procedure for providing pensions for military personnel and members of their families only de jure consolidated the state of affairs that had existed since the beginning of the war..

In June, the Pension Fund of Ukraine reported that amendments to the legislation are currently being worked out, in particular, in terms of calculating the insurance period and wages for citizens who worked on the territory of the Russian Federation. But what they consist of is not specified..

Until that time, to establish the right to a pension:.

the length of service acquired in the territory of any of the CIS states was taken into account. This also applies to salaries for calculating pensions.;

upon resettlement of a pensioner within the CIS, the payment of a pension at the former place of residence was terminated if the pension of the same type was provided for by the legislation of the state at the new place of residence of the pensioner;

documents necessary for pension provision, duly issued on the territory of the CIS and the states that were part of the USSR before December 1, 1991. , accepted without legalization.

At the same time, the provision of pensions for Ukrainians is regulated not only by international agreements, but also by the laws of Ukraine and resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers.. Therefore, every citizen of Ukraine who has reached retirement age and has the necessary work experience can apply for a pension on a general basis and receive pension payments in the manner prescribed by Ukrainian legislation..