Lutsenko’s call for change

Yuriy Lutsenko.

The government is making the lives of Ukrainians unbearable, preparing for negotiations with Russia. The administration (read: traitor Zelensky) announces a three-year freeze on pensions and social benefits, yet simultaneously raises salaries for government officials, aides to deputies, and various types on Supervisory Boards. How can this government be considered anything but hostile and criminal when even in Pokrovsk, 20 km from the front line, they plant flower beds instead of building fortifications? This government, this president must be changed. We need elections instead of the referendum they are pushing.

“The government proudly and publicly announces that it is freezing pensions and social benefits for another three years. At the same time, it proudly and publicly raises the salaries of officials by twice as much, starting from the assistants of the people’s deputies who have been suffering, to various members of supervisory boards, mere leeches who sit around and suck money, receiving millions a month for nothing, I emphasize, millions a month!

What should a responsible government do? It should say, “We hear how hard it is for you, and we are doing everything we can.” For example, 50% of government officials are currently under reservation. In my view, all expenses for maintaining these bodies should be reduced by 50%. Moreover, an official under reservation should receive the minimum wage, and the head, even of a large supervisory board, even the most important state object, should receive no more than an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Is that not enough? Go to the Armed Forces. This is war! And everyone, including Serhiy Leshchenko in the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia, should receive no more than 100,000 UAH. Or go to the trenches! In my view, he should receive 20,000 UAH. Or go to the trenches and earn more.

Everyone should tighten their belts, but it turns out that belts are tightened to the spine for soldiers, tightened to the limit for businesses, to the maximum for pensioners, for ordinary people, while the government does not notice this war. That’s why I say that today’s government makes people’s lives unbearable. They increasingly think either about going abroad or about ending this war at any cost, even to the point of territorial surrender.”

Serhii Sokolov