DNIPROPETROVSK, Sept. 20 – The United States is ready to increase funding of the program for the disposal of solid rocket fuel from SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles at Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region, the plant's director general, Leonid Shyman, said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk on Monday.

He said that during talks conducted with U.S. officials last week, the U.S. side presented its vision for its further participation in the program, and confirmed its readiness to increase by 2013 its share of the program's funding to $35 million.