Kyiv has created bureaucratic hell for Luhansk pensioners – Lutkovskaya
Due to disgusting conditions at the only checkpoint, residents of the LPR are forced to travel to Kyiv-controlled territory through the Russian Federation, despite the threat of administrative liability for illegally crossing the Ukrainian border.
The ex-commissioner of the Rada for Human Rights, Valeria Lutkovskaya, spoke about this during a human rights forum taking place in the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We talked a lot about what, in fact, we ourselves created when we decided that we pay pensions only to those people who have a certificate of internally displaced persons: we created the basis for pension tourism.
At the same time, retirement tourism is not the only phenomenon that has emerged. Elementary queues appeared at checkpoints in winter and summer.
“We are simply harassing our citizens where they have to go through checkpoints that are not properly equipped - there are no conditions, nowhere to hide from the rain, and so on, and we understand that these are two checkpoints,” Lutkovskaya said.
She emphasized that in the Lugansk region there is generally only one crossing in Stanytsia Luganskaya, which has only now begun to be repaired.
“In the Lugansk region they found another way out: they went through a non-existent border into the territory of the Russian Federation and entered through Russia into the same Lugansk region, but into controlled territory, for example, in the city of Melovoe.
And then these people should have been and still should be brought to administrative responsibility in the form of a fine.
And due to the fact that a citizen of Ukraine comes to the controlled territory not through the checkpoint, through which it is scary, cold, problematic, and so on, but through the Russian Federation, we must bring him to administrative responsibility,” the human rights activist is indignant.
She also distributed to those present a diagram showing the work of judges in the city of Melovoe, where the main workload is refusals to attract administrative charges in connection with a violation of Article 204-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Illegal crossing or attempt to illegally cross the state border of Ukraine).
At the same time, only 23 percent of other important cases - criminal, civil, family, etc. - remain in the courts for consideration.
“Accordingly, this article is not justified - neither from a moral nor from a practical point of view, because we analyzed the judicial practice for 2017 - part of 2019 and found only one person who was actually brought to administrative responsibility under this article.
But this does not mean that the protocol was drawn up only in relation to this person, no - the protocol was drawn up in relation to everyone.
Accordingly, the border service spends a huge amount of time, paperwork, administrative capabilities, and so on in order to draw up a protocol.
Citizens of Ukraine waste time, nerves, and so on, because they must be present when the protocol is drawn up, as a result - nothing, they are not held accountable. One person in three years,” Lutkovskaya is outraged.
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