KIEV, July 16 - Ukraine and the United States begin the final stage of joint disposal of solid missile fuel of intercontinental ballistic missiles RS-22 (SS-24 according to the NATO classification) at Pavlohrad chemical plant in eastern Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.

"Actions on cooperation at the final stage are enshrined in the joint plan for fulfilling the requirements set in the program on mutual threat reduction between the Ukrainian State Space Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense signed in Kiev on July 15," the press service of the Ukrainian Space Agency said on Thursday.

First Deputy head of the Ukrainian State Space Agency Serhiy Kapshtyk and Chief of the Global Cooperative Security Office at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense Michael Keifer signed the document.