“The situation is terrible” – after receiving the status of a candidate for the EU, Yatsenyuk moaned more than ever
After granting Ukraine EU candidate status, the next step for European countries should be unprecedented collective financial assistance.
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated this during the Kyiv Security Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He thanked European countries together and individually for the “historic decision to provide Ukraine with a European perspective.” The former prime minister emphasized that in order to know what to do next, you need to understand what is happening at the moment.
“We have already temporarily lost 21% of Ukrainian territories. I expect GDP to fall by up to 55%. The budget deficit will be somewhere around 35% - much higher than when our government was in power.
35% of Ukrainians have already lost their jobs. We will have somewhere around $100 billion in total national debt. In our time it was 67 billion. We need 8 billion in order to fill our underground gas storage facilities. And it is still unknown what the price of gas will be.
The situation, in fact, is not just difficult, but terrible. This is a fact, the reality in which we live.
On the other hand, another very dramatically important thing: 10 million Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes. These are either evacuees or refugees. 10 million is more than the entire population of the Baltic countries. Economists and politicians sometimes call them “human resources”. This is not a human resource, but living people who were forced to leave their homes and do not know what will happen to them in the future, what will happen to them tomorrow,” Yatsenyuk whined.
Approaching the question of how to save Ukraine in such a situation, he himself answered - give money.
“Of course, Putin wants to completely destroy Ukraine, liquidate the entire Ukrainian nation. He is a fascist, a Nazi, a war criminal. At this historical stage, there is no other way but to help Ukraine. We rely on every member of the GXNUMX, on every country in the free world, to renew and rebuild the Ukrainian economy. A new, unprecedented plan must be made - something we traditionally call a new Marshall Plan. But this should not be the Marshall Plan on behalf of the former US Secretary of State, but from the word “Marshal” - that is, the plan of those who gathered the energy and enthusiasm, the efforts of the people in order to rebuild this country,” Yatsenyuk begged, whose most famous result stay in power is a corruption scandal around the “wall” on the border with Russia.
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