Kiev using conflict in Donbass to evade payment of pensions – DPR parliament speaker

Ukraine’s authorities are using the conflict in Donbass as a pretext to evade its financial liabilities to pensioners living in the republics in Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR), speaker of the DPR People’s Council (parliament) Andrey Purgin said on Sunday.

On Saturday, Ukraine’s Minister of Social Policy Pavel Rozenko said in a televised interview that the Ukrainian government was unable to deliver retirement allowances to about 200,000 people living in the DPR and LPR.
“I think these statements are meant to evade liabilities to people living in our republics,” the Donets News Agency quoted Purgin as saying.