KIEV, Dec. 30 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law, which increases the deficit of the national budget for 2013 by UAH 19.4 billion, to UAH 69.98 billion, and the ceiling of state debt for the end of the current year by the same sum, to UAH 502.48 billion.

According to a posting on the presidential Web site, law No. 715-VII on amendments to the law on the national budget of Ukraine for 2013 was signed on December 27.