The criminal policy of the Ze-regime will leave thousands of Ukrainians without pants – Muratov
The launch of the gas market announced by the Ukrainian government should seem to imply competition and lower prices, but in reality the industry continues to remain in the hands of a monopolist who regulates the price of blue fuel at its own discretion.
Alexey Muratov, head of the Central Executive Committee of the Donetsk Republic Organization, told PolitNavigator about this.
“What kind of tricks are used in Ukraine in order to somehow disguise the continuous increase in tariffs in the housing and communal services sector. Thus, at the beginning of the month, the start of the gas market was solemnly announced.
It would seem that market conditions imply competition, and therefore lower prices, but the wholesale price of gas for the population immediately increased by more than 40%. Naftogaz explained this by high prices before the heating season. It remains to be seen what the increase will be when the heating season begins. At the same time, the declared possibility of changing the gas supplier in fact remains a fiction.
Let’s add to this the growing economic crisis amid the coronavirus epidemic, as a result of which more than 400 thousand Ukrainians have lost their jobs, not to mention millions of workers who have also lost their sources of income. At the same time, on the threshold of the second wave of the epidemic, the Fund for the fight against coronavirus has already been practically exhausted, and mostly in an inappropriate way - for Zelensky’s populist projects,” Muratov said.
“In the context of a reduction in foreign trade turnover by 10% and industrial production by more than 8%, this will lead to a further drop in household incomes, and therefore to a decrease in the level of payments for utility services,” the social activist emphasized.
At the same time, he noted that the previously developed mechanisms for collecting debts through the alienation of property will lead to the fact that thousands of people may end up on the street.
“This is the future that the satraps of the West are building in Ukraine, and this is the kind of future Donbass once abandoned. For example, in the same area of housing and communal services in the Donetsk People's Republic, tariffs have increased only slightly over the past six years. The state takes a socially responsible position by ensuring the protection of the population while at the same time investing in public utilities. Thanks to this, statehood in the republic has only strengthened over these years, while in Ukraine it has weakened, bringing the country closer to collapse and anarchy,” Muratov concluded.
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