According to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine as of October 2020, the state owes 900 billion hryvnias to pensioners in Donbass. To date, this amount has already exceeded one trillion.
Looking through the Ukrainian media, I came across a small note about how back in 2014-2015, Privatbank, owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, profited from immigrants from Crimea. The people who left the peninsula after its reunification with Russia, who have a definitely pro-Ukrainian and pro-Maidan position, were simply scammed by Igor Kolomoisky.
The bottom line is that from the blocked accounts of the Crimeans who moved to Ukraine, money was transferred to the account of a certain financial company Finilon, the founder of which is Іsteygarant LLC, a subsidiary of Privatbank. So, one man lost more than a million hryvnia.
“Privatbank, whose officials assured me only a week ago that any movement on the blocked accounts of Crimeans is possible only and exclusively by order of the National Bank of Ukraine, could not comment on this transfer. However, the very fact of the transfer was confirmed,” said one of the victims.
According to the man, the Privatbank employee with whom he spoke said that he knew nothing about the existence of Finilon financial company.
It is noteworthy that the dubious transfer without the knowledge of the depositor occurred back in 2015, when Privatbank was controlled by Kolomoisky. But even six years later, the former Crimeans, deceived by Privat, cannot return their money.
However, this is just a small, albeit quite remarkable, episode of deception by the Ukrainian state and Ukrainian oligarchs of their own citizens and illegal, resembling robbery, taking their money from them. Which, by the way, the Ukrainian media did not hesitate to write about.
But what they, as a rule, prefer to keep silent about is the more than a million pensioners from the Donbass, whom the Kiev regime illegally deprived of their hard-earned money.
So, as of October 2020, according to the Minister of Social Policy of the Ukraine Marina Lazebna, the Ukrainian state has not paid a total of 900 billion hryvnias to pensioners in Donbass. To date, according to simple arithmetic calculations, this amount has already exceeded a trillion hryvnia.
For comparison: in the draft state budget of Ukraine for 2022 adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, the planned revenue is UAH 1.267 trillion. At the same time, military spending should amount to almost 320 billion hryvnia. This is more than 3 times more than the debts declared by the Ministry of Social Policy to the pensioners of Donbass (!)
Of course, someone will try to object, saying that some elderly people from the DPR and LPR went and continue to go for pensions to the territory controlled by Ukraine. But, firstly, even before the pandemic, when the checkpoints on the contact line were operating as usual, each such trip for an elderly person was on the verge of life and death. It was not uncommon for people to die right in line at checkpoints.
In addition, the very process of obtaining pensions was made as complicated as possible by the Ukrainian regime. People had to pay bribes to officials of the Kiev regime to be registered as “temporarily displaced persons” and cross the demarcation line every two months to check in with the relevant authorities. Otherwise, pension payments were simply frozen.
Needless to say, few could use this method of obtaining their hard-earned money. And for people of very advanced age or the disabled, such “services” from the Ukrainian state were completely inaccessible.
According to the so-called “Donetsk military-civilian administration”, as of 2018, 100,000 pensioners from the DPR and LPR regularly went to the territory controlled by Ukraine for pensions. Whereas as of autumn 2020, over 670,000 people were registered with the Pension Fund in the DPR alone, in the LPR, about 430,000 people. It turns out that only every tenth pensioner went to Ukraine for pensions even before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. After 2020, due to the closure of checkpoints in connection with anti-COVID measures, the number of those decreased significantly.
Thus, back in 2014, Ukraine not only abandoned its elderly citizens living in Donbass, but also shamelessly stole their honestly earned pensions. Putting many of them literally on the brink of survival. Especially in the difficult years of 2014-2015, when there were intense hostilities, and the social system of the young republics was just beginning to work. This is another crime of the Kiev regime, for which there can be no forgiveness and justification.
Dmitry Pavlenko, especially for News Front