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Today, the key mission of the government and of all responsible political forces is to prevent escalation of the conflict in the east of the country, to restore a stable ceasefire. To do so, the authorities must negotiate with all parties to the conflict, according to the co-chairman of the OPPOSITION PLATFORM - FOR LIFE parliamentary faction Yurii Boyko said in his commentary to journalists.

OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE demands that the government immediately attends to uncontrolled surge in wage arrears which have reached almost 3.4 billion hryvnia and takes urgent measures to reduce it. This was stated by MP Serhiy Lovochkin commenting on the most recent data.

On April 29, the OPPOSITION PLATFORM - FOR LIFE faction MPs addressed the parliament with photos of their close relatives who fought during the Great Patriotic War. The opposition politicians called for a minute of silence to honor the memory of those killed during the Great Patriotic War and demanded to stop the rehabilitation of Nazism in Ukraine.

Opposition Platform - For Life faction in the Verkhovna Rada: We will not allow the Great Victory memory to get trampled! (photo report)

Ukrainian citizens who participated in the liquidation of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant catastrophe and suffered from its outcomes regularly address the national authorities regarding poor social protection and no access to healthcare of adequate quality in adequate amounts. OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE MP Serhiy Lovochkin therefore addressed Ukraine’s PM Denys Shmyhal with an inquiry demanding urgent measures aimed at significant improvement of social protection and healthcare quality for those who participated in the Chornobyl disaster liquidation and suffered from its outcomes.

Weak support of national producers during the lockdown led to significant rise in the enterprises’ losses. According to OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE MP Serhiy Lovochkin, the twofold increase of losses for Ukrainian manufacturing producers in 2020 means there is the need for change of priorities in social and economic policy of the state amid the coronavirus crisis.

MP for OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE Oleg Voloshyn participated in the online meeting with members of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the National Assembly of France to discuss the political settlement of the Donbas conflict.

The current government promised Ukrainian citizens to reckon with their opinion and solve the land issue on a referendum, but instead, the ruling majority put out in the draft law No. 2194 on amending the Land Code of Ukraine and other legislative acts regarding the improvement of the management system and deregulation in the field of land relations a provision, which allows foreign legal entities to buy and rent Ukrainian land.

In March, inflation reached 8.5 percent year-on-year basis which increased poverty among Ukrainian citizens. According to OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE MP Serhiy Lovochkin, the main reason behind the problem is poorly devised economic policy of current administration.

Today, on the eighth year of the armed conflict, aggravation of the hostilities in Donbas hit civilians first. People are afraid of repeating the years of 2014 and 2015, when they were living in bomb shelters, when it was impossible to go out to the streets, when innocent civilians were losing their lives. According to official data only, more than 3,300 civilians died due to armed conflict. That is what should stop the desire to continue the conflict today and to move away from the implementation of the Minsk agreements.