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Oleksiy Honcharenko: Did you know what salaries officials have?

Here we are, with you, along with one of the deputy finance ministers. By the way, he’s the only government official who is a part of the ‘Prodlenka’ inter-factional association. He’s sitting here. Where are the other officials? We don’t know, we don’t know where they are.

So, the Ministry of Finance— and I want to thank them for this— has published an analysis of salaries on their official website, friends. I invite everyone to look at it. They have detailed analytics for each month, across every sector. It’s amazing! I’ll show you the official numbers right now.

So, the salary for September: the National Commission for State Regulation of Utilities—the same people who set these ‘fair’ tariffs—earns 288,000 hryvnias a month. Again, that’s 288,000 hryvnias per month! Together with colleagues, we proposed an amendment to the state budget. Let’s be honest: no one in Ukraine should earn more than a soldier on the front lines, who risks and sacrifices his life every day. It simply shouldn’t happen!

How much does a soldier on the front lines earn? If he’s performing combat tasks for all 30 days of the month—which only someone made of steel can do—then he might receive 100,000 hryvnias, plus 20,000, plus a service rank bonus. At most, a soldier can receive 130,000 hryvnias.

But there are people in the state whom Ukraine considers more important than a soldier who risks his life 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 30 days straight. And instead of paying him, the Ukrainian state pays the head of the National Commission for State Regulation of Utilities.

Moving on. The National Agency for Corruption Prevention—those same people who demanded an enormous chart to be submitted, remember? You know, the one with ‘Sh’ and ‘B’? They need their vision checked because they’re like visually impaired people who somehow missed even a tiny grain of corruption. What was this agency doing, the one that should have noticed that, mysteriously, the family of the head of the Medical and Social Expertise Commission in Khmelnytskyi owns dozens of houses, plots of land, a Porsche Cayenne, some companies, and millions in assets? But they didn’t see any of it! And for their blindness, they receive 254,000 hryvnias a month.

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