Zelensky missed the chance to overturn the table under which Ukraine was driven
Ukraine could have taken advantage of the quarantine and crisis to reconsider its relations with major world players, but the government turned out to be too weak to decide to do this. Now the country faces a new round of crisis.
Ruslan Bortnik, director of the UIAMP, said this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We had a wonderful chance to turn around the poker table, where the big players are sitting, and we are sitting under the table. We could get out, turn it over and claim it.
But the authorities did not take advantage; the authorities behaved like an extremely weak and dependent player. And we will face socio-economic problems in the fall. In the fall, we will feel the consequences of both the coronavirus and quarantine restrictions.
Already today, according to the IMF, we have lost 8% of GDP, which is more than $30 billion. We spent $2,5 billion on quarantine, and the socio-economic losses due to quarantine will be more than $30 billion.
A new round of budget deficit awaits us in the fall. We need to take on debt again. So what should I do? A new round of unemployment awaits us in the fall. Elections await us in the fall. How will the government survive this period? It seems to me that she still doesn’t understand,” concluded Ruslan Bortnik.
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