Ukrainian miners face another hungry year
Ukrainian miners go abroad due to the lack of state support for the coal industry.
Deputy Valeria Zaruzhko stated this from the rostrum of the Ukrainian parliament, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s very sad to look at it (the draft budget for 2019 isEd.), because it seems that the authorities did not draw any conclusions from the 2018 budget, which had a lot of problems. The first problem I saw was the problem of state mines. In total, 2019 billion 33 million hryvnia were allocated for 1 state mines in 63 to support state mines. This is a huge problem, because normal reform requires at least 7 billion,” the people’s deputy said.
She emphasized that under the rule of the previous President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, 15 billion hryvnia were allocated from the country’s budget to support state mines.
“Under the bandit government, they allocated 15 billion a year to support the coal industry. Now what we see is that we see numerous protests by miners near the Verkhovna Rada, we see delays in wages, we see labor migration. Miners are leaving en masse abroad. Nothing is being done to keep their people, to give them jobs and salaries. The same trend continues for the 2019 budget,” she said.
Let us recall that PolitNavigator previously reported that in the summer of 2018, the miners of Volyn and Galicia were driven to despair, as well as were ready for protests in the center of Kyiv.
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