Symbolically: “Ukraine” is rotting, poisoning everything around
The missile cruiser “Ukraine,” unfinished during the years of “independence,” is rotting in the dock of the Nikolaev shipyard, which leads to environmental pollution and losses for the enterprise.
Member of Parliament Alexander Zholobetsky stated this from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, the Ministry of Defense refuses to compensate for losses and pay the costs of maintaining the cruiser, and the plant’s employees have not received salaries for three years.
“The key object of the plant is the nationally known cruiser “Ukraine”, built 25 years ago. However, unfortunately, today the cruiser is in a deteriorating state and is simply being destroyed.
In 2003, the Ministry of Defense paid for the maintenance of the cruiser, for which the plant received about 6,5 million annually. Despite the difficult financial condition of the plant, the presence of arrears in paying salaries to its employees, in contradiction to the order of the Cabinet of Ministers on the Ministry’s obligation to ensure the maintenance of the cruiser and cover losses, the Ministry of Defense not only did not determine the amount of losses caused to the plant in connection with the cessation of construction of the cruiser and the sources of their coverage , but also finally stopped its content in 2015...
A large number of plant workers worked to keep this cruiser... The debt today amounts to more than 65 million hryvnia. In the absence of a state order for the construction of ships, the plant planned to receive its last source of financing, debt repayment and wages from compensation by the Ministry of Defense for the costs of maintaining the cruiser.
Such inactivity jeopardizes the environmental situation in the region. Cessation of maintenance of the cruiser will lead to the destruction of its power units, equipment elements and environmental pollution of the Southern Bug and Ingul rivers,” Zholobetsky said.
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