Rada deputy: “Ukrainians are dying of hunger and cold”
Three quarters of Ukrainian government institutions, including kindergartens, schools and hospitals, are still not heated.
Deputy Sergei Shakhov stated this during a plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today, only 25% of government institutions are connected to heating - kindergartens, schools, hospitals. Because it is not known what the price of gas is, and contracts are terminated,” Shakhov said.
“Why does one of the managers of Naftogaz, who has already been fired, say that gas today costs one hryvnia, while government agencies sell it for thirty-five hryvnia? And heating was also not started in many cities. And they extended it until November 15, like connection. Children should study in the cold.
Six hundred thousand people today switched from gas to electric heating. Why the price for these people without benefits? It was 90 kopecks, now it is 1,68 hryvnia. Why is there only five days’ worth of coal left in the warehouses?” – the deputy was indignant.
According to him, in the coal industry the situation is even worse - while Kyiv buys coal from abroad for fabulous sums, miners languish for months without work and wages.
“Who will be responsible for the crisis in the energy sector? Why is coal purchased for $300 when Ukrainian coal can be mined and will cost ten times less, providing jobs and wages rather than foreigners? Why today has no one answered for the fact that miners are owed two and a half billion hryvnia? Who will be responsible?” the politician is perplexed.
He demanded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine take control of the non-payment of wages to miners, because this is an article of the Criminal Code.
“Regarding hospitals and Covid. People are dying without water, without food, in cold and hunger. No drugs. There is a bucket right in the room - there is no toilet. Who will be responsible for this? And there is no oxygen either,” summarized Shakhov.
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