A new wave of rising prices will sweep Ukraine
An increase in the price of electricity for Ukrainian enterprises by the decision of the new composition of the national regulator will lead to an increase in prices for all goods and services and will limit the growth of wages.
Alexey Kucherenko, ex-Minister of Housing and Communal Services 2007-2010, chairman of the Union of Home Owners of Ukraine, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“What happened: at the end of the year, the tariff was quietly raised by 15%. In two steps - from January 1 9%, from April 1 - 6%. For non-domestic consumers, i.e. not for the population. It is clear that the burden will fall most on small and medium-sized businesses. For small enterprises, electricity tariffs have increased significantly. It is clear that all this will immediately affect the cost of production, the prices of any service, any product, everything that is produced.
I fully admit that some employers were ready to raise wages based on reality, but since the rise in the price of electricity will eat up this part of the potential profit, then, accordingly, this will not allow raising wages,” the expert said.
Kucherenko noted that members of the regulator appointed by Petro Poroshenko are responsible for making the decision to increase tariffs.
“So, they came up with some new “Rotterdam”, justified it, and decided to increase the price of electricity in accordance with it. And under the noise, two new members of the commission, appointed by the president, two clowns (I can’t call them anything else, because I don’t believe that a conscientious person in such conditions could become a signatory of these hundreds of decisions that accumulated during the forced downtime) waved these decisions by one vote, as usual, without a single abstention.
What’s interesting is that in three years there was not a single abstainer. This is such a collegial body; I’m wondering: is this how our European curators envisioned the creation of this independent, collegial regulator?” – says the ex-minister.
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