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Bonuses and allowances for Lviv officials will be canceled. The money will go to the Armed Forces: a response from the Social Policy Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
This was reported by public activist and lawyer Andriy Petryshyn.
“In January 2024, I prepared and filed a petition on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The essence of which is to suspend all bonuses and salary supplements for all officials in Ukraine for the duration of martial law. And the funds that will remain in the budget should be used to purchase air defense systems and other weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” said Andriy Petryshyn.
Petryshyn said that he had recently received a response from the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans’ Rights signed by the Committee’s chairman, H. Tretyakov. The response states that the Committee fully shares its view on the need to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine with state-of-the-art air defense systems and other tactical weapons in a timely manner and in full to protect the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.
Public activist and lawyer Andriy Petryshyn
“The response also states that the members of the Committee were familiarized with my initiative, and on those grounds, the Verkhovna Rada Committee appealed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Shmyhal D.A., with a request to consider my appeal and instruct him to take appropriate measures and inform me and the Verkhovna Rada Committee of the results of the consideration of my petition,” the statement reads.
“I believe that this initiative should be continued at the legislative level. That is, to suspend all bonuses, allowances and additional payments to officials of all levels in the country for the duration of martial law. The Verkhovna Rada should adopt the relevant law,” emphasizes Petryshyn.
As Article 93 of the Constitution of Ukraine provides that the right of legislative initiative in the Verkhovna Rada belongs to the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and MPs, I am now planning to start negotiations with members of the Verkhovna Rada to immediately draft a relevant bill based on the initiative I have raised, submit it to the Verkhovna Rada for consideration and adopt it as a law. As a result of the adoption of such a law, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive multibillion-dollar additional funding.
“I came to the decision to prepare and formalize this initiative when, as part of the Lviv Audit project, we found out that officials of the Lviv City Council had been accruing monthly bonuses and various salary supplements for many years.
We found out that all this was happening illegally, and the amounts per official ranged from tens to hundreds of thousands of hryvnias per month. In fact, a large number of officials wiping their pants in cozy offices have been and are receiving more than the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on zero.
It is clear to me that this is happening all over Ukraine. In times of war, such misappropriation of funds can be safely equated with criminal sabotage. Billions of hryvnias continue to be spent not on the front line, but on maintaining the luxurious living standards of officials. For their maybachs, villas, and their children’s education in London and Paris.
It is also clear that these people will not stop siphoning off the budget even during the war, so it is time to put an end to this at the legislative level. That’s what I and the people who support this initiative are going to do,” emphasized Andriy Petryshyn.
