KYIV, March 7 - The government has developed a business support package that exempts it from paying a number of taxes for the period of martial law and at least a year after it ends, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said.

"A special package of assistance to businesses and employees has been created. Individual entrepreneurs of the first and second groups are completely exempt from social security tax. Enterprises and individual entrepreneurs of the third group are exempt from paying social security tax for employees who were drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other protective formations, including those of territorial defense," Zelensky said in a video message on Monday.