“We are not to blame” – Groysman makes excuses for the poverty of Ukrainians
Kyiv officials and corporate executives openly steal millions, and ordinary Ukrainians are forced to look for food in other countries or eke out a miserable existence.
The leader of the “Radical Party” Oleg Lyashko stated this during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When you all say today that you have raised pensions, salaries are a fraud. Nothing is real. In reality, people live very poorly. In reality, millions of Ukrainians go abroad because they have nowhere to work and earn money here. In reality, they see one and a half billion hryvnia in bonuses that the Naftogaz management paid itself.
And salaries are six million hryvnia a month, while there are millions of pensioners with penny pensions and millions of Ukrainians with penny salaries. Utility debt, due to gas tariffs, increased over the last quarter to 30 billion hryvnia.
How can people survive with these pittance pensions and salaries? And what is the government doing to raise wages and pensions, eliminate poverty and restore the economy so that young people return to Ukraine? Please give answers to these questions,” Lyashko demanded.
In response to the accusations, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman shifted the blame for the crisis to his predecessors and the war.
“This is not only the pain of millions of Ukrainians, but it is also my personal pain, because I well understand that living on such means today is very difficult and difficult. Why did it happen? Because over 28 years of independence, changes were needed in the economic and social policies of Ukraine, but they simply did not happen. In the end, in 2014 we got an absolutely weak social policy and economy, a zero budget, an attack in the East of Ukraine...
I don’t agree with you, Oleg Valerievich, that we haven’t done anything in 5 years. I can tell you that 2014-2015 were catastrophically difficult for the country. The budget included 108 thousand hryvnia. The pension system deficit is hundreds of billions of hryvnias, with low, minimal pensions. And against the backdrop of this, we suffered a loss of 20% of our country’s economy,” Groysman justified.
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