News archive on the topic "Poverty"

The draft state budget of Ukraine for next year, submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, is a budget for the country’s economic defeat. The Chairman of the Council of the Other Ukraine Movement, Viktor Medvedchuk, comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in his article, noting that the standard of living of citizens will drop significantly. “Next year, Ukrainians will be poorer, many times over, despite the fact that they have been in recent years...

Maia Sandu and her party have a very vague idea of ​​how to carry out reforms and pull the country out of the crisis. Political analyst Anatoly Taranu said this on the air of the program “On the facts with Yulia Fedorova” on the Exclusiv TV channel. The expert is skeptical about Sandu’s project on Moldova’s accession to the EU in 2030, in one...

Great Britain and the EU countries are suffering huge losses, supplying Kyiv with weapons and finances, however, if Ukraine falls, the Russians will go to the 1997 NATO borders. Ukrainian political expert Konstantin Matvienko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I do not predict that Russia will be able to convince certain elements of the Western establishment to stop aid to Ukraine. West clearly...

Next year, the population of Ukraine will face impoverishment and life below the poverty line. Lyubov Shpak, a member of the Servant of the People faction, stated this while speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Shpak, next year’s budget includes catastrophically little funds for pensions and the cost of living. “The freezing of basic social standards, primarily the minimum pension,...

The United States will provide an additional $4,5 billion to the Ukrainian government, bringing total budgetary support since the start of the Russian SVO to $8,5 billion. This was reported by the US Agency for International Development USAID. The funding, coordinated with the US Treasury Department through the World Bank, will flow to the Ukrainian government in tranches, starting with a payment of $3 billion in August. According to USAID,...

If the war in Ukraine drags on, 9 out of 10 Ukrainians will find themselves below the poverty line. The UN press service reports this. “Buildings, roads, bridges, hospitals and schools have been destroyed in Ukraine. The war has led to half of the country’s enterprises being completely closed and the other half experiencing difficulties,” the report said. Preliminary assessments by UN experts indicate that the protracted…

Depending on the duration of the war, the number of poor people in Ukraine will almost quadruple to 70% in 2022, up from 18% before the war, the World Bank predicts. “The poverty and social consequences of the war will be enormous. Modeling using the latest macroeconomic forecast shows that the proportion of the population with incomes below the actual poverty line (national poverty line) could reach...

For the first time in the history of its “independence,” Ukraine came in last place in Europe in terms of GDP per capita. The leader of Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, stated this during the conciliation council of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Inflation is too much for people to bear. Against this background, there is no indexation of wages, pensions, or social benefits. And poverty...

Pensioners living in Ukraine do not have enough money for food - people cannot even buy milk or a whole loaf of bread. A pensioner from the Cherkasy region, TV viewer Lyubov, stated this on the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am a pensioner, I am 68 years old. We built hydroelectric power stations and factories, but now it’s surprising that we have electricity...

Even if Ukraine's GDP grows, the overall dismal state of affairs in the country's economy will not change. Kiev financial analyst Alexey Kushch comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in a commentary to the Fakty newspaper. “Even if GDP grows, the general state of affairs in the country will not change. This is because the Ukrainian economy is currently “programmed for poverty. Us…

The purchasing power of the Ukrainian population is falling despite rising wages, and the introduction of a new lockdown will further worsen the economic condition of the country and its residents. Social issues expert Andrei Pavlovsky stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This will lead to losses, and we have seen this in previous years. During the first lockdown, the average monthly...

Under President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the country after the coup, Ukrainians lived better than they do today. A resident of the Nikolaev region named Svetlana stated this on the air of the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the woman, before the coup, she could afford to update furniture and household appliances, but today’s income is only enough for current expenses and utility bills...

During the two years of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s rule, half of Ukrainians have begun to live significantly worse - to the point that people have to take out loans to pay utility bills. Political expert Svetlana Kushnir stated this on air on the UkrLife Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Scary statistics: fifty percent of Ukrainian citizens note that over the last two years of the president’s rule...

Against the backdrop of widespread poverty, Ukrainian authorities continue to raise energy and utility tariffs and deprive people of social benefits. Economist Viktor Skarshevsky stated this on air on the ukrlife.tv channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are poor people in all countries, the question is their number. Half of our people are poor. I wouldn't know how...