KYIV, Aug 14 - Education and Science Minister Liliia Hrynevych has called on Ukraine's government to include UAH 1.848 billion in the state budget 2018 for reforms.

"We were able to agree with the Finance Ministry to provide financing for several steps involving the introduction of new standards of early education, irrespective whether the Law on Education is passed," she said in an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.