The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR noted that out of 672.2 thousand pensioners who are registered in the DPR, about 370 thousand cannot receive a pension in Ukraine.

The authorities of Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in the Donbass owed to residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) pension payments totaling UAH 71.6 billion ($ 2.6 billion). This was reported on Wednesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, commenting on the work of the subgroup on economic issues of the contact group in Minsk.

“The total amount of Ukraine’s debt to pensioners living in the republic amounts to 71.6 billion hryvnias, including 5.4 billion of people with low mobility, and the amount of debt grows every day,” the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented.

The Foreign Ministry clarified that of the total number of pensioners registered in the DPR (672.2 thousand people), about 370 thousand are not able to receive a pension in Ukraine. Approximately 40% of them are citizens with limited mobility.

At a meeting of the economic subgroup, the Ukrainian side, after a lengthy discussion, refused to use, without clear reasons, the mechanism proposed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which was previously proposed to pay pension to people with disabilities.

“At the same time, even the OSCE coordinator [Ulrich Brandenburg] could not figure out the reasons for refusing to implement this mechanism. Obviously Ukraine’s deliberately blocked the payment of legal pensions,” said Natalya Nikonorova, the representative of the DPR in the contact group.

Source: TASS

Translation by Donbass Insider

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