Some 600,000 Donbas pensioners on the territory controlled by Ukrainian authorities receive pensions, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.
“According to our estimates, 1.2 million pensioners remain on the territory, controlled by Russian terrorists, 600,000 of whom receive pensions on other territories (on the territories of Ukraine, controlled by Ukrainian authorities). Therefore only the Kremlin is guilty in the humanitarian catastrophe coming on to Donetsk and Luhansk. We did our best,” the prime minister said, opening a government meeting in Kyiv.
Yatseniuk also stressed that the government several times tried to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in Donbas, “but we did not manage to pass the checkpoints of Russian terrorists.”
“The government has clearly stated: all the money that people should receive will be accumulated in the government. As soon as the Kremlin takes its bandits from the territory of Ukraine and we resume control over the entire territory of the country, including Donetsk and Luhansk, we will resume all social benefits,” he said.
At the same time, Yatseniuk stressed that people, temporarily displaced from the territory of Donbas, can now receive social benefits.
