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Underfunding of health care expenditures is a result of not only a ‘hole’ in the state budget, but also of incorrect government prioritization. This was stated by the MP from the OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE Serhiy Lovochkin, when commenting on the implementation of the 2020 budget.

There is no alternative to the Minsk agreements. The talks of the Kyiv government about any other ways to resolve the conflict in Donbas, about Plan B and the like are nothing more than a PR stunt and an attempt to cover up an open unwillingness to fulfill their obligations within the framework of the Normandy format. This was stated by the chair of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, MP Viktor Medvedchuk while on Russia-24 channel air.

During the epidemic, amidst another increase in tariffs, lower living standards and rising unemployment, wage arrears are accumulating. Yurii Boyko, co-chair of the OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE faction, mentioned this in his Facebook commentary.

The reaction of the Ukrainian government towards the Russian Sputnik V vaccine testifies to the incapacity of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s team, according to Oleksandr Lukashev, MP from the OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE party.

The developer of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine – Russian National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after M.F. Gamaleya – agreed to provide Ukraine with technology and raw materials for the production of this vaccine at a Ukrainian enterprise. Ukraine, for its part, has the necessary production capacities and could produce hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccine monthly. The major task for this project now is registration in Ukraine and obtaining the appropriate permits for the delivery of vaccines to the domestic market. This was stated by the chair of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk in Moscow during a joint briefing with the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kyryl Dmytriyev and the director of the Research Center Oleksandr Gintsburg.

Compromise, negotiations and implementation of the Minsk agreements – these should be the steps by official Kyiv to achieve peace in eastern Ukraine. This was stated by the co-chair of the OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE faction Yurii Boyko in his commentary to journalists.

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has de facto ordered the current Ukrainian government to refuse from purchasing the Russian vaccine – the world’s first registered vaccine against COVID-19 – and from establishing its production in our country. However, millions of Ukrainian citizens hope that the Ukrainian authorities will somehow show common sense and put people’s lives and health above the interests of their overseas masters.

The production of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the Russian National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamaleya, can be established in Ukraine at the Bіolik enterprise in Kharkiv. This was subject of arrangement reached in Moscow between Viktor Medvedchuk, chair of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, Oleksandr Gintsburg, director of the N.F. Gamaleya Research Center and Kyryl Dmytriyev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

Decentralization and full-fledged local self-government should contribute to the economic and financial independence of the regions, not to dictates from the center and manual distribution of financial resources, as is happening now. A co-chair of the OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE faction Yurii Boyko said this in his comment to journalists.

This was stated by the co-chair of the the OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE faction Yurii Boyko, when answering questions from journalists on the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada session.