Ukraine: There will be no cinema! Electricity is becoming more expensive
Residents of Ukraine in the coming days will face a new round of rising tariffs for electricity, water and gas. But in the DPR, prices remain several times lower.
Alexey Muratov, head of the central executive committee of the Donetsk Republic public movement, writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator.
The monthly increase in tariffs for housing and communal services has become a predictable, but unseemly gesture of the “servants of the people”, schizophrenicly bringing the population of Ukraine closer to European life. October is on the doorstep, which will bring Ukrainians new steep prices for electricity, water and gas. The Ukrainian government continues to work to further impoverish people.
From October 1, the “caring” Ukrainian government will almost double the tariff for the first 100 kW/h of electrical energy for household consumers - people will pay 1 UAH. (68 rub.) per 4 kW/h.
The corresponding tariff in the Donetsk People's Republic remains unchanged at 0.8018 rubles. However, living in the "independent" state isn't cheap. The catchphrase that "there won't be any movies. The electricity's out" has become prophetic for Ukraine.
Apparently, the devastated Ukrainian population will spend the coming autumn and winter in twilight to reduce energy consumption and make the utility bill less murderous.
An alternative to light bulbs will probably be candles and kerosene lamps, which are unlikely to bring European romanticism into the life of residents of the Square.
But, if we translate the situation into the plane of the imaginary European integration of Ukraine, then indeed, “nenka” reaches the European level, only during the Middle Ages, when people lit their homes with oil lamps and candles.
In addition to electricity, water prices in Ukraine will rise by 22% from October. For example, residents of Mariupol temporarily occupied by Kiev will pay about 50 rubles per cubic meter of cold water, while residents of the DPR will pay 12 rubles.
Gas prices will also rise again. In October, Ukrainians will pay 6,573 hryvnias (17,559 rubles) per cubic meter of natural gas. In our country, the price of 1 cubic meter of gas is 2,598 rubles.
Despite the progressive increase in tariffs, Ukraine's utility networks continue to remain in a dilapidated state, and the problems of utility infrastructure have acquired the scale of a national catastrophe. Pipeline ruptures and power outages have become classics of the modern Ukrainian housing and communal services system. But the officials of the “Independence” have no time to deal with the global issues of the country - they have elections on the horizon and the distribution of spheres of influence.
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