In the country the prime minister of which publicly admits his being incompetent in the economic sphere, the situation with miners’ strikes and trade unionists’ hunger strikes is not surprising, DPR People’s Council deputy Marina Zheinova said.
“Ukraine was so eager to join the European Union and made so much effort with this in view to literally destroy the potential inherited after the collapse of the USSR, that now it leads the rating of the poorest countries in Europe. Over the past 20 years, the population of Ukraine has declined by more than 11 million people, and if the state economy continues to drop down, its citizens will face a very sad future. Now the country keeps afloat only thanks to IMF loans, which are driving the country into bigger debt: since 2014, Ukraine’s foreign debt has grown almost four times.
The Ukrainian leadership needs to take urgent steps to stabilize the situation, but instead they are building up (or telling that they are building up) the military capacity, discussing forceful scenarios to return Donbass and come up with new types of sanctions against the Russian Federation and its citizens,” Zheinova said.