The Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine Vadim Chernysh said that families of Ukrainian political prisoners will receive payments from the government in the near future.

He said this on the air of the program "Your Freedom", "Crimea. Realities ".

"The government approved this decision as temporary within the budget program for this year alone. We decided to allocate these funds. Tomorrow they will not go. I think in the near future, a few weeks, we will complete all bureaucratic procedures to pay, "- said the Minister.

Chernysh added that all the same it is necessary to adopt a special law that would solve the problem of political prisoners in a complex way.

"Almost a year in the parliament lies the bill, would solve the problem of political prisoners or persons illegally deprived of their liberty. In this case, in the Crimea and Russia. We will ask the deputies in the fall to pass the law, including against those who have already left prison, for example, Akhtem Chiygoz, "he said..

On July 26, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution on the support of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia and the occupied territories and members of their families.