The Ukrainians are hostage to the politicians who came to power in 2014. This was stated by the head of Volyn Regional Council, member of the UKROP party presidium Ihor Palytsya in Facebook live.
“We became hostages to people who took power in 2014. The present government of Ukraine prevents it from development,” said the UKROP member.
He noted that the current authorities have virtually destroyed the Ukrainian economy. The industry is on the verge of extinction because of exorbitant tariffs for energy. While the companies of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who controls almost 60% of the domestic electricity market, gain extra profits, the largest industrial enterprises stop working one by one.
Today, five of the six refineries do not work in Ukraine, ferroalloy business and aluminum production are completely stopped. As a result, the economy loses its profits from export of Ukrainian products abroad.
“The prices for electricity in Ukraine are already higher than in Europe. The authorities do not allow industrialists to get foreign currency, instead they push domestic economy into debt bondage, forcing them to sell lands and forests, sending Ukrainians to search for a better life abroad,” stressed Ihor Palytsya.
The despotism of the current government is sometimes higher than the appetites of the officials from Yanukovych’s times. For example, the liquefied natural gas market in Ukraine went under full control of the President Petro Poroshenko and his business partner Viktor Medvedchuk. A deliberate blocking of alternative deliveries of liquefied gas equated its cost with the price of usually more expensive gasoline.
“Even the things done by Kurchenko under Yanukovych cannot be compared with what Poroshenko and Medvedchuk are doing in supplying liquefied gas to Ukraine today,” summed up the UKROP member.
