KIEV, March 9 – President Viktor Yanukovych has instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to ensure the payment in June through December 2012 of up to UAH 1,000 to each of the six million depositors of the former Soviet Sberbank as compensation for depreciated deposits.

"The state should deal with the return of debts to its citizens," he said at an extended government meeting.

The president placed personal responsibility for the organization of payments on the premier, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, and the vice premier for social issues.