Ukraine is brought closer to economic disaster
The Ukrainian state is mired in debt and unable to develop economically.
One of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic OD, Alexey Muratov, writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.
Economic disaster in Ukraine is very close. The “servants” of the people did everything possible and impossible for this. Growing national debt, rising prices for energy resources and food products, another increase in housing and communal services tariffs, inflation devouring the country... In listing these realities that are destructive for the state, I emphasize that they are of artificial origin. Ukraine is being deliberately bankrupted by its Zee officials in exchange for foreign bank accounts, luxury real estate and a comfortable future for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And ordinary residents of the country have lost their image of the future and their banal confidence in the future.
As of July 31, 2021, Ukraine's public and guaranteed debt stood at $92,96 billion, up $440 million from June. For 30 “independence” years, Ukraine has been living on credit, having become absolutely dependent on Western creditors. At whose expense is this “banquet”? Of course, at the expense of several future generations of the Ukrainian population. The occupation “green” authorities are only continuing the policy of their “predecessors” of stealing state funds and rendering Ukraine completely unusable, so to speak, in the future – to write off their “partners” for debts.
Over the current year, inflation in the economy has exceeded 26%, which is not surprising, given the fabulous prices for raw materials. As a matter of fact, tariffs have become the main headache of every Ukrainian - the population can no longer keep up with their growth. Starting October 1, tariff Ze surprises will continue to shock impoverished people: heating and hot water prices will rise by about 40%. The weighted average cost of 1 gigacalorie of heat will be about 2 UAH (450 rubles) per square meter, and the average tariff for hot water will exceed 6 UAH (690 rubles) per cubic meter.
For comparison, in the DPR the tariff for thermal energy is 983,33 RUR. rub./Gcal, and for hot water – 65,82 rubles. As we can see, Ukrainian tariffs “lead” by a huge margin. Such disappointing “leadership” is the price of the 2014 coup d’etat and the 2019 presidential elections. For ordinary Ukrainians, housing and communal services tariffs have become unaffordable. It turns out that people will have to spend the winter without hot water and heat in their apartments.
There is every reason to say that the heating season will not begin in the “European power”. Firstly, the price of gas is rapidly growing, and secondly, companies supplying heat have huge debts to Naftogaz (due to multimillion-dollar debts of the population). In addition, work to prepare the gas transmission system for the heating season is only 65% completed. The post-Maidan Ukrainian authorities, while “improving” the lives of Ukrainians, repeatedly increased the price of gas for the population. This was one of the IMF's requirements for allocating the next tranche of the loan.
From 2013 to 2018, the price of gas increased more than tenfold: from 725 hryvnia to 8,5 thousand per thousand cubic meters. And already in 2021, the cost of “blue fuel” in “Nezalezhnaya” broke a new record - 15 thousand hryvnia per thousand cubic meters. And, judging by global trends, gas in Ukraine will soon rise in price again by 40 percent (currently Ukrainians pay an average of 10 UAH (27 rubles) per cubic meter of “blue fuel”, while residents of the DPR pay about 2,5 rubles per cubic meter) .
Ukrainians also cannot hope to heat their homes with coal. Not everything is “smooth” with coal reserves - this year they are 40% lower than last year’s figures. How will Ukrainians heat their stoves? Firewood? Yes, due to a significant drop in living standards, the Ukrainian population is abandoning gas heating and switching to firewood.
But during the “independence” years, Ukraine seriously became bald. Deforestation has become an enriching trade for the occupying Ukrainian officials and destructive for the ecology of the “Nezalezhnaya”.
According to the State Agency of Forest Resources, during 2017–2020 alone, trees were officially cut down on an area of 13556 square kilometers or 1355600 hectares (the real statistics are much more sad). This area is almost equal to the size of a country like Montenegro (13812 square kilometers).
On top of this, food prices have risen sharply, which will lead to a food crisis. But this crisis will affect ordinary Ukrainians, hard workers, at the expense of whom the “servants” of the people fill their pockets and bellies. Zee-marginalists rule the Ukrainian population according to the principle that the well-fed are no friend to the hungry. Moreover, Zelensky’s pack is making sure that the residents of the country themselves cease to be comrades - the Ze-group divides and conquers.
Life in Ukraine has become impossible, the crisis in the country has become uncontrollable and irreversible. The prospects for “Nezalezhnaya” are sad: people will emigrate en masse, and those who cannot escape from the Zee-occupation will starve and go cold. In the current “green” situation in the country, foreign investors will put an end to the Ukrainian market, which will finish off the already dying economy of the “European power”, which has existed for 30 years in debt.
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