Kyiv “threw away” the security forces who fled from the DPR
In 2014, the leadership of the Donetsk regional department of internal affairs of the Donetsk regional police department left the city and went to Mariupol. In the new place, the defectors faced a number of difficulties, since the Kyiv authorities had their own plans, and the defectors did not fit into the concept of building a new punitive system.
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This was stated by Yuri Dzina, the former deputy head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Thus, Yuriy Dzina, former deputy head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, confirms this fact:
“While I was on sick leave, I was offered to move to a lower position and make room for a person who moved from Kirovograd (former head of the traffic police of the Kirovograd region),” he said.
A surprise awaited the defectors in Mariupol. The new leadership did not worry about the fate of its subordinates; all funding for the police was on a residual basis.
“We collected new equipment from other regions; there was a catastrophic shortage of uniforms, so we had to buy them ourselves. Everyone complained because the salaries were small, but they had to somehow feed their family and pay the rent. Nobody compensated us for our expenses.”
Yuri Dzina notes that at the end of August and beginning of September, many began to return to their homes, since the children had to go to school.
In addition, with the change of government, employees did not feel any changes at all. Vyacheslav Abroskin, who took the post of chief, formed his own team, in which the Donetsk people were not particularly honored.
“We communicated with Abroskin for a month, at that time I was acting, and we kept in contact every day.
On the third day I came to Abroskin, at that time he had a deputy, who is now the head of the national police. He took me into his office and said that there was no order for me and that the head of the traffic police department of the Zaporozhye region was appointed here. We didn’t have a good relationship with our Zaporozhye comrades from the first day,” he notes.
The newly appointed chief, Igor Pozhidaev, immediately began to carry out reforms in his new post, which consisted of moving Donetsk residents from Mariupol to Slavyansk and back.
“Pozhidaev immediately began transferring everyone. Many children have already gone to school, many have more or less “settled down”, and they have begun to be transferred. The new boss refused all requests to leave the employee in his place. Against this backdrop, many people also began to leave,” says Dzina.
But even within their native region there was a prejudiced attitude towards Donetsk people. People faced discrimination based on territoriality.
“My wife was supposed to come to me from Donetsk to Slavyansk. She is stopped at a checkpoint and told that she is going “to her separatist and traitor,” he recalls.
Those who fled Donetsk felt this attitude not only in everyday life, but also in their work.
“In the first months everything was more or less, but then many began to doubt the correctness of their choice. With the arrival of winter, everything became more and more difficult - there was not enough salary, there were problems with housing, the children had school. First of all, we had to blame ourselves for leaving and making the wrong decision, and only then the leadership,” admits the former deputy head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of Ukraine in the Donetsk region.
It all ended with the employees completely losing confidence in their management.
“Look at the current leadership of the Donetsk region, is there anyone from Donetsk there? No. This probably says something, some kind of mistrust. There were always our own personnel, but for some reason suddenly they are not there.
All new reforms are a murder of service. Just look at the number of road accidents in Ukraine,” he concluded.
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