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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.

The poverty of Ukrainian citizens is among the most dangerous threats to national security, and this problem must be solved at the highest level of state authorities. This was stated by OPPOSITION PLATFORM – FOR LIFE MP Serhiy Lovochkin commenting on the Social Policy Ministry data.

The government should stop making provocative statements and ensure the negotiation process to achieve peace in Ukraine, according the co-chair of the Opposition Platform – For Life faction Yurii Boyko.

Armin Laschet, Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany – the largest political force, which is part of the ruling coalition, sent a letter of appreciation to the Chairman of the Political Council of the “Opposition Platform – For Life” party Viktor Medvedchuk. He expressed gratitude for the warm address and affirmed his willingness to cooperate for the sake of transformations for the better world.