Gerashchenko covered herself with Putin
Ukrainian pensioners deserve their pensions, but it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who is to blame for the fact that Kyiv refuses to pay them.
Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko stated this in the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is obvious that we must fight for the return of the territories and for the people who remain there [in the LDPR]. We must rely on youth. I discard all speculation regarding the fact that Ukraine is allegedly violating its obligations to accrue pensions to those pensioners who remained in the occupied territories.
Parliament made completely fair decisions to determine the status of the temporarily occupied territories. The effective control that Russia exercises today over these territories, and according to the Geneva Convention, the Third Protocol, it is the occupying country that is responsible for the humanitarian, social, and, first of all, security situation that it has created in the occupied territories.
It is very important that Ukraine fulfills its obligations and collects pensions. In the same way, we must be honest and say that while the territories are occupied, there is no pension fund or state banks, so it is simply impossible for a Ukrainian postman or a cash-in-transit vehicle to go there,” Gerashchenko said.
She shifted responsibility to the Russian President for the situation that is developing with pensions in Donbass.
“All this is Putin’s responsibility that our pensioners do not receive pensions there. We hope that Russia will pay for this, including in international human rights courts. All our colleagues are right that the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy should make a more humane procedure for verifying pensioners, because all the bullying that they sometimes have to go through is unacceptable,” said the vice speaker.
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