< p _ngcontent-sc90="" class="news-annotation">Due to the “integration” of the territories occupied by Moscow, residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions will not be able to reduce debits with credits at all in the near future. The absolute majority will not have enough money to survive.
According to channel 24 sources in the Ukrainian special services, starting from 2014, living conditions in the temporarily occupied territories of the East have been constantly worsened. However, after the declaration of Donbass as “Russian”, the situation will become simply terrible for the majority of the civilian population.
Moreover, residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, temporarily not controlled by Kyiv, began to understand this. And, of course, they do not like this prospect.
Salaries will decrease, while communal services will increase several times
- The reforms that the Kremlin has planned in the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” are associated with annexation of the occupied territories and the transition of Donbass to Russian standards.
- First of all, this concerns changes in tariffs for utilities. After all, for all 8 years, on instructions from Moscow, the “authority” did not increase the cost of a kilowatt-hour, gigacalories and cubic meters of water and gas. This was necessary for only one purpose – so that lovers of the Russian world could brag about the fact that living in Ukraine is expensive.
- Therefore, residents of quasi-republics have been paying 2.5 rubles per cubic meter of gas all this time, and 1.54 rubles per kilowatt of electricity. These tariffs are extremely low and not comparable to the market value. Therefore, Russia had to actually compensate for the difference between what people paid and the costs of service providers.
- The Kremlin has paid tens of billions of dollars for such a “comfortable life” for the inhabitants of Donbass. But later it turned out that Russia would issue its own bill to the residents of the occupied territories. Not only financial.
Already in 2022, the invaders decided that the “DNR” and “LNR” should compensate their investments. Miners and metallurgists, teachers and rescuers were massively and forcibly sent to war.A few months later, when the mobilization reserves began to decline, the invaders decided to close all enterprises. To relieve the Kremlin of the burden of maintaining subsidized and unnecessary mines, plants and factories for Russia, as well as to release the remnants of personnel and send them to the war zone.
However, the real surprise awaited the residents of Donbass after the announcement of the annexation. At first, almost all lovers of the “Russian world” were happy to “return home”, but later they began to understand a little. As it turned out, from January 1, in the territories that will not come under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, new tariffs for communal apartments will be introduced. Specific figures are unknown, but they should correspond to market prices and the cost of services in Russia. The average cost of kilowatts in the aggressor country is 3 rubles, and cubic meters of gas – from 5 to 7. There is no water in the Donbass and is not expected.
Therefore, in a few months, “citizens” the so-called quasi-republics will be forced to give communal services not 1-2 thousand rubles, as everyone is used to, but at least 5-6 thousand. However, most likely, the tariffs will be even higher, because the market value should include the price tag for repairs and maintenance of communications, and everything is very bad with this in the “hole”. Because the infrastructure has not been updated for 8 years, in some places it has been damaged due to the war, and all local specialists have been mobilized. Therefore, for a long time, the occupiers have been bringing specialists from Russia to repair damage, but they are sometimes sent to war.
If we add to this the desire of the Kremlin to force the inhabitants of Donbass to pay for 8 years of life at the expense of Russia, as well as Putin's attitude towards the local population as third-class people, then the price tags will not even triple. And how people with salaries of 7-8 thousand will survive is unknown. Especially considering that in almost every family the breadwinner was sent to fight as a “volunteer”.
Pensioners still receive double payments
Since even before the announcement of the annexation, the price tags for food, medicines and essentials in the temporarily occupied Donbas have grown very seriously, in fact, the only category of the population who is still feeling well are the leaders of gangs and collaborators. Pensioners-miners live quite richly, who still receive social benefits from Russia and Ukraine.
In order to remove the Ukrainian pension from the cards, elderly residents of the “L/DPR” are forced to either turn to local “entrepreneurs” who, for percent convert hryvnia from bank accounts to rubles in cash, or go to Lviv. Retirement tourism to the “Bandera capital” is extremely popular. Carriers for 250-300 dollars take people through Russia, Belarus and Poland, and after withdrawing the money they take them back. Taking into account the fact that usually one person travels with 5-10 cards, the cost of the road is much less, and the average miner's pension is 13-15 thousand hryvnias, so such trips are extremely profitable. And the opportunity to receive double payments greatly simplifies the life of pensioners in the occupied territories. Therefore, for the most part, they do not want Russian troops to be driven out of Donbass.
