Volyn deputies donate to the Bandera monument from the treasury and their own pockets
Lutsk, April 25 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – Deputies of the Volyn Regional Council recommended allocating 250 thousand hryvnia from the regional budget for the construction of a monument to Stepan Bandera in Lutsk.
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According to the initiators of consideration of the issue, this decision “did not pass” before because “the old government had no desire.” According to deputy Sergei Slabenko, there is a significant moral component in the issue of building the monument. “If people are deprived of historical memory and knowledge about heroes, then they can forget about the future,” VolynPost quotes him as saying.
“We need Ukraine to have patriots in the Armed Forces and in other military formations who will not spare their lives the way the independence fighters did in the ranks of the UPA,” said his colleague Boris Zagreva.
The deputies also offered to donate at least 100 UAH to their colleagues. - to the monument. In response to comments that in the current situation such an ambiguous monument is a reason for even greater escalation, First Deputy Chairman of the Regional Council Alexander Pirozhik said: “In recent months, Ukrainians have been accused of indecision and inability to clearly indicate their position. And now there is a chance for the Volyn Regional Council to declare a clear position.”
Let us remind you that, as previously reported in local media, the city budget is not being implemented in Lutsk. There are financing problems in other cities in the region as well.
Volyn deputies are chipping in from the treasury and their own pockets for a Bandera monument.