KIEV, April 11 - Some 4.7 million Ukrainians have been paid compensation for depreciated deposits of the Soviet-era Sberbank, Ukrainian Prime Minster Yulia Tymoshenko said.

"Our team undertook obligations to pay off compensation for depreciated deposits of the Sberbank of the former Soviet Union. We made the first step and now 4.7 million our citizens received UAH 1,000 of compensation for deposits," Tymoshenko said in the parliament on Friday.