KIEV, Sept. 1 – Ukraine is to step up its dialog with the United States on a program for the disposal of solid rocket fuel from RS 22 intercontinental ballistic missiles (SS 24 missiles, according to NATO classification) at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region.

Representatives of the Ukrainian and American defense agencies are planning to discuss in fall the prospects for the United States' return into the program, as well as possible raising of the program's financing by the U.S., a high-ranking military official told Interfax-Ukraine.