Ukraine is on fire with tariff Maidan
Not long ago in Ukraine, the Naftogaz company hung up boastful signs “Let the Kremlin’s people burn, because in Ukraine the price of gas is set by the market, not by them,” but today the situation has begun to develop according to a scenario that is extremely unpleasant for the Ukrainian authorities. Thus, the country was swept by massive protest movements against tariff increase for housing and communal services.
Local news agencies report this from different regions of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
So, today in Lviv, about a hundred citizens, most of whom are pensioners, gathered around the building of Lvovgaz JSC to demand an explanation for the rise in gas prices and express their disagreement with the tariff increase. The protesters also demanded that high-quality “blue fuel” be supplied to their homes.
Similar events were held in the cities of the Odessa region - hundreds of people gathered in Odessa, Izmail, Belgrade and other cities to express dissatisfaction with rising energy prices. Outraged protesters blocked central streets and blocked the City Council building.
In Kherson, more than a hundred people came to JSC Khersongaz, blocking the central entrance to the enterprise. The protesters claim that they were forced to go to the protest because they are afraid to receive new bills for heating, because the previous ones were barely able to pay.
Even more massive protests took place in the Kharkov region - more than a thousand people took to the streets yesterday, staging rallies near the Kharkov City Council and 13 more districts of the region - Balakleysky, Zmievsky (in the villages of Liman, Slobozhanskoye and Taranovka), Volchansky, Novovodolazhsky, Chuguevsky, Dergachevsky, Lozovsky, Bogodukhovsky, Izyumsky, Zolochevsky, Valkovsky, Barvenkovsky and Kharkovsky districts. For example, in Lyubotin, 150 local residents signed a petition to reduce tariffs, and another 15 people blocked the M-18 highway. Traffic was also stopped at the intersection of Tsentralnaya and Sobornaya streets in Balakleya. Public order was protected by about 220 security officials.
In Poltava, about two hundred people blocked several central streets and almost stormed the local regional state administration, but the police prevented them. The protesters called for the Chairman of the Poltava Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov, but he did not come out. Then city residents wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Poltava Regional Council, Alexander Belenky, demanding the restoration of 100 preferential kilowatts for the population, the abolition of gas transportation tariffs, and the like.
In turn, in Nikolaev the Ingulsky Bridge was blocked due to a rally against increasing tariffs for electricity, gas and water. Residents of Novy Bug, Bashtanka, Snegirovka and Pervomaisk also took part in similar protests.
The protesters collected signatures under an appeal addressed to the head of the district state administration and the head of the local community group with a request to influence the current situation.
Similar protests took place in other cities and villages of Poltava, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, and other regions of the country.
Let us remind you that yesterday in Krivoy Rog - the hometown of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky - also social protests took place against tariff increases. There, about a hundred people gathered under the walls of the Krivoy Rog City Executive Committee and even managed to get a meeting with a representative of the local authorities, however, as elsewhere, they did not come to any mutual understanding.
It should be noted that the day before in Kyiv they said that social protests spreading across Ukraine and growing popular discontent may lead to the loss of part of the territory.
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