Odessa. “It would be better if it was killed with a bomb!”
In order not to explain for a long time the current moral state of Odessa residents, I will make do with one single phrase that almost everyone utters. "By God, it would be better to kill with a bomb!“- this makes me dumbfounded, but that’s exactly the mood.
Recently, Odessa residents began to have their bank cards blocked en masse for utility debts, which have been huge for city residents since they were 14 (I remember the epic from the Maidan: “Yanukovych, lower gas prices!"). Those whose cards have not yet been blocked by accident receive “letters of happiness”:
“We inform you that by Law No. 3048-IX of 05.05.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX, the automatic blocking of bank accounts of debtors has been resumed. We warn you that due to this debt, your bank accounts and payment cards will be blocked.”
«You will also pay legal fees!“, - collectors and other flayers from public utilities shout into the phones.
Yes, this is it, a “gift” that had already come into force on May 9, when the Cabinet of Ministers resolution prohibiting bailiffs from “seizing the accounts of Ukrainians worth less than 100 thousand hryvnia during martial law” ceased to apply. Either the war has already been won in the Verkhovna Rada, or there is no longer enough money for factories, newspapers, and ships, but who is to blame? That's right, from the poor. Moreover, the new law cynically explains: “debtors will be able to pay taxes and fees from their account without taking into account the arrest" This is sacred, of course! But, say, a bottle of Corvalol and half a loaf are no longer there.
By the way, there is still something humane in the law - they say, it is prohibited to block pension cards. Well, what can you profit from them - two thousand hryvnia once a month? However, in the end, pensioners, as the most defenseless, were the first to fall under the distribution and, I repeat, people complain en masse about blocking of pension cards.
However, punitive measures are applied to debtors with a number of violations of the already draconian law. Once upon a time, one government executive admitted to me in a personal conversation:
“Decisions on automatic debt write-off are stamped on an industrial scale, judges do not delve into personal situations, they have unspoken agreements with banks and utility companies.”
And utility workers officially confirm this. Well, for example:
“In conditions when the debt of Odessa consumers to Infoxvodokanal has exceeded the astronomical 450 million hryvnia, the company’s lawyers are using all the opportunities provided by law so that the debt does not interfere with the stable water supply of the city in wartime. Thus, about 150 applications are submitted to the court every day, regardless of the amount of debt. Only recently, about 3500 materials have been submitted to trial and this figure, unfortunately, is growing. “In the near future, the bank cards of almost three thousand Odessa residents who are in debt for water will be blocked.”
Here is the debtor's opinion:
“I am one of these “debtors.” Honestly, I have no words. They called me from the water utility saying that I had to pay off the debt, and that if I didn’t pay by the 20th, all my accounts would be blocked. Just a second, since when is a month of non-payment considered a debt? For 385 UAH? Seizure of accounts? Seriously?.. There are no words about this situation, for 300 UAH. they are ready to rip throats out. And this at such a time!.. In addition, the nice lady on the phone said that they have a monthly money collection plan, to close it we are rushing all subscribers. What should people do who get their salary on the 23rd (that’s me)?”
I’ll add on my own behalf - who doesn’t have a salary at all, what should they do?..
Well, if we think on a national scale, then, as Oleg Gorokhovsky, co-founder of Monobank, already explained, “Since the law came into force, we must return the arrests that were lifted during martial law. This will affect almost 436 thousand of our clients. It's a shame, but there's nothing we can do about it. All banks will comply with it».
However, they decided, as always, to try out barbarism in the hated “cotton” Odessa. In any case, no indignation has yet been heard from the residents of Lvov and other farmers, while Odessa residents are completely in a panic, because often the amounts on their cards are much less than the debts themselves. Deprivation of the last kopecks means one thing - death. That’s why it’s understandable why people say “Better than a bomb” in despair. For how many already robbed people will be killed by the new law has yet to be calculated.
What, this is not genocide again - this is something else - yes, lovers of genocides and famine rituals?..
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