“This is an example for Kuban”: The Verkhovna Rada left preferential leave to Euromaidan and ATO militants
Despite the economic crisis, which will only grow in Ukraine in the near future against the backdrop of hostilities, the Verkhovna Rada refused to reduce the preferential leave from 14 to 7 days, previously introduced in legislation for participants in the 2014 coup d'etat (officially referred to by the authorities as the “revolution of dignity”). , as well as militants of the punitive operation against Donbass.
MP Mykhailo Tsymbalyuk from Yulia Tymoshenko's party announced this at a parliamentary meeting, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“As a result of the discussion, we managed to defend this norm... there remains an additional 14 days of leave,” Tsymbalyuk said.
The notorious MP Alexey Goncharenko said that Ukrainian social standards should become a model for Russian territories to which Kyiv will make territorial claims in the future.
“Moreover, we see how other territories underneath them are also suffering. And the same Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, and the Belgorod region, and Kursk, and Voronezh. Therefore, friends, I think that we must always show a high level, including of our social standards and dedication to the social, so that those regions that look to us with great hope when they are liberated, I’m not even talking about our Ukrainian Kuban,” said Goncharenko.