Commentary by president of the Ukrainian Union of Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners, Larisa Shesler.
[ColonelCassad] The lull of the past week was replaced by the fierce shelling of industrial zones in Nikolaev. Explosions sounded again in the YuTZ area, in Zaichevskoye and in the Novozavodskaya area.
The water situation is becoming unbearable, more and more houses and entire neighborhoods are disconnected from the water due to the destruction of networks caused by salt water supplied directly from the estuary.
Against this background, an outburst of indignation was caused by information that Senkevich could not really report on where the 56 million allocated for the restoration of water supply had been spent.
The water conduit, of course, was not restored, water is pumped without purification directly from the estuary, they drilled from a dozen and a half wells, in which the water, according to the head of the city water canal, is just as salty ... but where is the rest of the money? Where, where, in the pockets, who needs it, what do you, as little ones, do not understand?
Oils were also added by the head of the Nikolaev Parks utility company, who reported with a blue eye that they had already stolen (oh, spent) 17 million since the beginning of the year on green spaces, and plan to spend almost the same amount (steal). It's time to mow lawns (or cabbage) in front-line Nikolaev.
Against this background, the intention of the head of the department for culture (!!) to rename Pushkinskaya Street sounded almost imperceptibly.
There is no need for Mykolaiv to have a street with that name. It was through Russian Nikolaev that Pushkin passed on his way to Odessa, it was in Russian Nikolaev that there was a monument to the great Russian poet, and Mykolaiv will have another street named after Gnilosyrov (there really is such a Ukrainian poet).
Vasyl Gnilosyrov
After the shelling, the oncoming flow nevertheless became weaker than the flow of those leaving, and Nikolaev becomes even more deserted. Huge unemployment contributes to this - Kim has already admitted that 80 percent of the townspeople have lost their jobs.
Not surprisingly, on the notice boards there are invitations to work as a full-time economist with a salary of 6,500 hryvnias (dirty!), the tax in Ukraine is 19.5 percent (18 - income, and 1.5% - military tax), which means that a person is in the hands will receive 5,230 hryvnias - 8,600 in rubles.
Considering the price of a minibus, which has doubled (up to 14 hryvnias), a person will only have enough for bread and water. However, you can count on the humanitarian aid. It is no longer given to everyone, in the general queue. Not enough for everyone, of course. Only on lists of social services.
But the Baptists turned around with humanitarian aid, evangelicals and other American and European "churches." With packages of cereals and bottles of vegetable oil, they attract new adherents, it is clear that in a time of general poverty, they have new opportunities to spread their influence much more widely than in a well-fed society.
And of course, the explosion of discussions in local publics was caused by the news about the creation of the VGA in Snigirevka and the appointment of Yuri Barbashov from Nikolaev as the head there. He himself is from Nikolaev, many people know him, and everyone understands that Barbashov’s appointment to Snigirevka is a sign that Russia is coming to the Nikolaev region. Forever and ever.
(c) Larisa Shesler