Volunteers distribute humanitarian aid at a bomb shelter in Zaporizhzhia, December 25. © KATERYNA KLOCHKO (EFE)
El Pais: Two million Ukrainian civil servants face salary cut-off if Western aid dries up
Ukraine needs the economic lifeline of its Western allies. Without a fresh injection of funds to keep the machinery of state running, Kyiv — which has been at war with Russia for almost 700 days and which devotes a large part of its budget to defense — will be forced to leave up to two million public employees with unpaid salaries and a further million without social benefits in the first quarter of 2024. These are the conclusions of an analysis of the country’s financial situation sent by the government of Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the United States, the European Union and other Western allies, and to which EL PAÍS has had access. Ukraine has urged Washington and Brussels to move forward with aid packages totaling some €100 billion ($110 billion), which remain frozen and pending approval due to political friction in the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament.
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Update #1: Report: Ukraine May Have to Delay Salaries, Pensions Without Foreign Aid (VOA)
Update #2: Possible Delay in Ukrainian Pensions and Salaries if Western Aid Falls Short (Kyiv Post)
WNU Editor: We are talking about the salaries of 500,000 civil servants, 1.4 million teachers, and pensions for 10 million pensioners. If Western aid is not supplied, expect a complete collapse of services by summer, and a new migration of Ukrainians fleeing the country for a better life in the West. The only thing that will be left behind are the soldiers fighting the war, and the old who not able to leave.
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ReplyDeleteEasy fix.
Make all those governmental People soldiers and send them to the front. You kill two birds with one stone.
a. You get the soldiers you need and you then have the money to pay them.
10 Million pensioners???? Really? That is about 1/2 of the current population.
So. draft all the pensioners. The ones out of country? Tell them that they are cut off from being paid until they come back.
The pensioners are an added bonus. Because you pay them soldiers wages which is cheap, and then if they get killed, the government has one less debt to pay out.
See?? It is a win win.
This could be a bigger stress on the system than lack of electricity. Pensions are a big reason why the older generation have wanted to ditch Kiev for Moscow. Almost 50% of pensioners in Ukraine receive between $55 and $80 per month, which isn't enough to pay for rent, let alone utilities. The day that the annexation happened in the east, every pensioner in those 4 oblasts saw their payments instantly jump to $240 per month.
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ReplyDeleteThat was the best piece of info I have gotten in a while. I am serious. Thank you very much for sending this along. I had no Idea.
This is one of those hidden gems. Why? Because if the US does cut off funds, it will have a big effect on the average Ukrainians thinking.
How? Maybe like this.......
We bled, we starved and suffered for this war and now those bastards cut even our grandparents off at the knees.
F this.
2:26, I agree;
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the west is finally reaching the point where the populace will not enjoin in our leaders destructive wars. If Biden got the USA into a war with Russia they would have to reinstitute the draft. Not sure the populace would stand for it. Unless I have been gaslit and got Russia all wrong, their populace is very patriotic. No western country's patriotism even comes close. The western populaces may very well be patriotic but for their culture and traditions not their government or leaders. I think we are going to find out.