Tymoshenko is threatening a miners' riot and blaming Kolomoisky
The Ukrnafta company of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky has not been paying taxes for a year, part of which should have been used to pay off arrears of public sector salaries.
Mikhail Volynets, a Ukrainian deputy from the Batkivshchyna party and the head of the independent miners’ trade union of Ukraine, said this on air on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Volynets said that in the mines remaining in the territories controlled by Ukraine, a critical situation has developed with arrears in wages.
Ukrnafta had to pay taxes to the budget in previous years, which they did not do because they are under the control of Kolomoisky, but Law 1006 stipulates that they must pay 30,8 billion hryvnia, and of which 1,4 billion hryvnia should be aimed at paying off wage arrears to miners.
Yesterday, from sources that are completely trustworthy, I learned that this money will not be available - instead of 1,4 billion, only 100 million may reach the miners,” Volynets noted.
According to him, if Ukrainian miners are not paid wages, they will organize a new Maidan.
“The situation is much larger than the fact that now money is simply not allocated to pay the miners. The wage arrears of miners as of January 1 of next year could reach two billion hryvnia if the funds designated by the authorities are not allocated at the end of December.
If this does not happen, people will stop trusting the authorities and then stop working - this is the path to another Maidan or to global protests and disobedience to the authorities,” concluded Volynets.
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