During January-August 2018, almost 11.8 billion hryvnias were paid to the state budget.. "In August 2018, the payers transferred 1.5 billion hryvnias to the defense capacity of the Ukrainian army, which is 5.3% or 77.9 million hryvnias more than planned. Compared with August 2017, military receipts increased by 24.6%, or by 305.6 million hryvnia, "the press service of the State Fiscal Service. Recall, the war tax was introduced in Ukraine in August 2014, its rate is 1.5% of income subject to taxation.

*** Three children died, another was wounded as a result of the detonation of an anti-personnel fragmentation mine near Gorlovka. This was announced today the "mayor" of the city Ivan Prikhodko.

*** On the night of September 30, a powerful explosion thundered on the territory of the military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stationed at the test site near the village of Radenskoye, Oleshkovsky district, Kherson region. At the same time, a 37-year-old contract serviceman suffered, who was hospitalized in the district hospital with penetrating fragmental wounds of the abdominal cavity and traumatic injury of the arm with the amputation of two fingers. The cause of the explosion is still unknown..

*** During the operation of the United forces in the Donbass, the Ukrainian military advanced and entrenched on new frontiers.. More than 6 square. km are now under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, volunteer Yuri Mysyagin wrote on his Facebook page.

*** Voting at the referendum on renaming the Republic of Macedonia ended on Sunday at 19:00 local time. According to data published on the official website of the State Election Commission, the turnout rate at 18:30, local time, was 34.59%. If the final voter turnout is less than 50%, in accordance with Macedonian law, this may indicate a failure of the referendum. According to the law, for a plebiscite to be recognized as successful it is necessary that more than half of the total number of voters, which is more than 1.8 million people, vote..