In Dnipro ATO soldiers, their relatives and widows of those fallen during military actions in eastern Ukraine will receive permits for street trading in the city. The Mayor Borys Filatov has told about this decision. Details and rules of the procedure are promised to be announced soon by the City Council.
“I have decided to give ATO veterans permits for street trading. As well as to their families and their widows. Like they do it in the USA,” wrote the City Mayor on his Facebook page.
According to Borys Filatov, the City Hall has already asked the experts from the United States for advice. Dnipro Mayor has told that in New York City’s Central Park, and near the White House in Washington only veterans of the Vietnam War can trade. The military there have a lifetime license, which cannot be transferred to a third party.
Borys Filatov has also added that the majority of trading places in Dnipro City centre will be given to widows of fighters killed in Ilovaisk. The Mayor has also stressed that it is important to provide financial aid to the families of killed or injured fighters for many years to come. As it is the only way to facilitate people’s lives indeed.
“Our duty is to give them a livelihood. Not to pay off by allocating the land, which actually is lacking (or worth nothing or has no communication lines), but to give money,” wrote the Mayor of Dnipro.
The Mayor has announced about his decision on the second anniversary of Ilovaisk tragedy. The decision was preceded by a long struggle with illegal street trading. Thus last week in one of the city districts they stopped construction of illegal “watering hole”, which the businessmen in cahoots with the officials of the City Hall planned to build on the land allocated to ATO fighter. The building was demolished and the officials involved in the scheme were dismissed.
