The post-Maidan authorities “let us down” - military pensioners are protesting again
About two thousand pensioners of security forces, military and law enforcement agencies of Ukraine held another protest rally near the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Pensioners demand that legislation not be changed regarding social and pension provision for former law enforcement officers and military personnel. In particular, they oppose the adoption of the bill prepared by the Ministry of Social Policy “On Amendments to the Laws of Ukraine on the Recalculation of Pensions of Persons Dismissed from Military Service and Certain Other Persons,” which changes the procedure for pension provision for veterans of the security and defense sector and, as veterans say, violates a number of articles of the Constitution of Ukraine.
According to pensioners, this bill repeals the current law and deprives veterans of benefits. This, they say, demotivates those who currently serve in the Ukrainian army and security forces.
“The military personnel who die every day are looking at us. Name me at least one more country where people in uniform who served their homeland were honor and conscience, the highest value, and they were “lowered” so low,” Major General Alexander Gerashchuk said in his speech. – We were “let down” by the government that came after the Maidan. Like unshaven pigs after the Maidan, they immediately rushed to occupy offices and places to steal. How can you live on a meager pension? What was I guilty of that during this post-Maidan government I became several times poorer? And there are hundreds of thousands of us like this all over Ukraine!”
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