KIEV, May 17 – Some 10 million pensioners, or 81.7% of the total, have received raises by Ukraine's Pension Fund effective May 1 as a result of a rise in the subsistence wage, Pension Fund Chairman Oleksiy Zarudny said.

"From May 1, 10 types of pensions were increased… Contributory retirement pensions, payments to war disabled veterans and war veterans were increased," he said.