Zelensky is trying to hide from evil miners behind Akhmetov
Wage arrears in the Ukrainian coal industry continue to grow, and miners’ hopes for an improvement in the situation are not justified.
The head of the independent trade union of miners of Ukraine, Mikhail Volynets, stated this at the All-Ukrainian meeting of coal industry workers in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Minister of Energy Orzhel declares that he will destroy the mines within a year; at the last meeting of the committee, he admits that out of 33 state mines, from 4 to 7 mines will remain. Well, there is no social dialogue, no. What mines?
We must know. Where will the miners be deployed? How will mining towns function? What can we say to a specific employee? These are 55 mining towns. This is the Donetsk, Lugansk region, not to mention the Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov, Volyn regions. I accidentally find out that in Lvovskaya there are 1400 workers per street,” the miner is indignant.
According to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, a way out of the situation with the closure of unprofitable mines could be their privatization by DTEK. Speaking at the meeting, he asked Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, who was present in the hall, whether his company would privatize them.
“I have a question for you: will you privatize unprofitable mines?” he asked. The audience laughed, Maxim Timchenko threw up his hands and avoided answering, saying that he was not sure.
“No, I have a frank question. Will you? Now you are not sure, but when you performed you were very confident,” Zelensky said to applause from the audience.
Timchenko tried to laugh it off, saying that the Antimonopoly Committee would be against it, but Zelensky promised to “help.”
“If you are not ready, and the Antimonopoly Committee, as you say, will be against it, then I will talk to them, and they will be in favor,” the president played to the public.
Since the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine had previously conducted a study of the monopoly in the electricity generation market, which was actually directed against the DTEK company, Zelensky’s joke turned out to be ambiguous - the president reminded Timchenko that the state can put pressure on his company.
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