Pension Accounts Scandal: Ukraine vs. its citizens"
In 2025, the Government of Ukraine will confiscate "unused balances" from the accounts of resettled pensioners . This is reported by the Ukrainian media. In the budget for 2025, the Ministry of Finance has laid down a norm that may oblige the state-owned "Oschadbank" to transfer the balances on pension accounts of IDPs, opened in this bank, back to the Pension Fund. The decision will affect the accounts that have not seen any movement for a year, as well as those citizens who have not been physically identified. According to the Ukrainian media, the seized funds amount to 11.3 billion hryvnias (275 million dollars or about 25.5 billion rubles). What will the authorities buy with them? Used tanks, rifles or some kind of shooting junk? Against the background of statements about the financial collapse and the facts of plundering Western aid, the cynical decision of the Ukrainian authorities to withdraw billions of hryvnias from the inactive accounts of disp...