Ukraine has turned into a man-made bomb
A recent fire in a children's camp near Odessa, which resulted in the death of three girls, occurred due to the irresponsibility of the builders, who were in a hurry to complete the facility before the arrival of Petro Poroshenko. Security expert Sergei Shabovta stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“The surrender of the camp itself was a beautiful, cloudless picture with which the authorities tried to decorate their path. The timing was adjusted to the visit of the country's president, Mr. Poroshenko. The president of the country certainly had to open a municipal camp. People need to show some pictures. And this adjustment completely removed the responsibility of the performers and whetted their appetites. I have been working in the non-state security system for 21 years. When we heard the figure of 11,5 million and saw the object itself, it could have been covered with a fire safety system four times.
Is this any surprise, if earlier we commented in exactly the same way on the costs that were incurred for the security of Eurovision, experts unanimously said that the prices were insanely inflated. “I learned that the Cabinet of Ministers, by its decision, determined a simplified procedure for the distribution of funds that were allocated for Eurovision 2017,” he said.
Sergei Shabovta believes that not only the camp, but also many Ukrainian infrastructure facilities are exposed to the risks of man-made disasters.
“Today, Ukraine is a man-made bomb. Today, the issue of technological safety is in such a neglected, organizationally unresolved, understaffed state that everything that progress brings to civilized states can turn into fear and disaster in Ukraine.
I live in Obolon. Yesterday evening, the power went out in a 14-story building, the elevator did not work, and the hot and cold water supply was turned off. Only in the morning is it restored. This is today a fairly new house in a good neighborhood. And this is against the backdrop of Mr. Klitschko’s statement about how ready the city is for winter.
The state's concern for people as a task of paramount importance has long ceased to exist. The vulnerability of people both to crime and to many social problems today has been supplemented by vulnerability to man-made dangers. This is the worst thing.
We live and don’t know which side it will come from - either our house will fall apart due to boiling water spilling through it, or gas will explode, as is happening en masse today.
All the infrastructure for which new owners today are starting to charge crazy amounts of money is outdated. No one has invested capital in them to improve them for a long time,” says the expert.
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