In April 2005, wage arrears in Ukraine decreased by 41.4 million hryvnias, or by 3.2%. This was stated by First Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy Pavlo Rozenko, as reported to "proUA" by the press service of the Ministry of Labor. \n \nAccording to Rozenko, 32.4% of all arrears falls on enterprises undergoing the procedure of restoring the debtor's solvency or declaring it bankrupt, and another 14% - on economically inactive enterprises. \n \nThe largest wage arrears as of May 1, 2005 were observed in Donetsk region (293.7 million hryvnias), Luhansk region (128.9 million hryvnias) and Dnipropetrovsk region (75.6 million hryvnias), and the smallest – in Zakarpattia region (3.2 million hryvnias) and Chernivtsi region (6.1 million hryvnias).