The scandal with the evacuation of Ukrainians from China and the pogrom near Poltava did not end
Yesterday's scandal with the evacuation of Ukrainians from China and the pogrom in the Poltava region did not end, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Yesterday, Health Minister Zoryana Skaletskaya, in order to calm the angry crowd of local residents, decided to “set an example” - she announced her readiness to spend a 2-week quarantine in a sanatorium together with Ukrainians from China.
However, it has already become known today that Skaletskaya is not at the sanatorium. The official allegedly left to continue convincing the locals not to panic. At the same time, it was argued that Skaletskaya herself could not be a carrier of the coronavirus, since she only communicated with some medical staff, and does not live in the rooms of the sanatorium, but in a certain “separate house.”
“Skaletskaya escaped from the quarantine center in Novi Sanzhary. The one who yesterday promised to spend two weeks with the Ukrainians from Wuhan. Well, damn animators. Resign, clown! – political scientist Taras Berezovets is indignant.
(A little later, after angry comments, Skaletskaya published a photo indicating her return to the evacuees, assuring that it was from there that she would manage the ministry remotely).
The evacuees from China themselves showed the conditions in which they would spend 14 days. These are small rooms with cheap plumbing and furniture, where renovations were probably carried out back in Soviet times.
The corresponding video was published on her Instagram by one of the girls accommodated in the sanatorium (attention, profanity!).
Meanwhile, the situation in the village, where yesterday they burned tires and threw bricks at arriving buses, has stabilized. It is reported that 23 of the 24 rioters detained the day before have been released. A man accused of causing serious injury to a police officer who was struck in the head by a rock remains behind bars.
True, half the students did not come to the local school the morning after the riots.
Deputies of the Poltava Regional Council gathered today for an emergency session. There they planned, obviously taking advantage of the uproar, to accept an appeal to Kyiv with a demand to allocate 300 million hryvnia to the region for the completion of an anti-tuberculosis dispensary and the arrangement of quarantine boxes. However, the draft resolution did not receive the required number of votes.
A representative of the Ministry of Health said that evacuees from China were not sent to the elite Feofaniya clinic near Kiev, where deputies and officials are usually treated, because, allegedly, free places there were occupied by wounded ATO soldiers.
In addition, we are not talking about quarantine, but about observation – i.e. about monitoring people who do not have symptoms of the disease. Therefore, no measures such as a strict cordon of the territory in the Poltava region are necessary. Due to the concerns of local residents, the authorities agreed to treat sewage from the sanatorium, although they assured that the coronavirus is transmitted only by airborne droplets.
Governor Oleg Sinegubov warned that Ukrainian authorities view the unrest as a provocation of certain forces that were behind the organization of the protests.
He called them “certain business and political groups” who are pursuing “corruption schemes” and therefore “have moved on to open destabilization and anti-state activities that threaten national security.”
Sinegubov, however, did not name the names of the puppeteers of the protests.
It is interesting that the speaker of the regional council, Alexander Bilenky, unlike the governor, on the contrary, laid the blame for the protests on the authorities, who, according to him, announced the arrival of the bus through the Kyiv media, without bothering to reassure the population that there was no threat of coronavirus infection.
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