Ukraine’s goverment fails to allocate funds for energy sites protection in Q1 2024
Source: Oleksii Honcharenko/Telegram
In a concerning revelation, “European Solidarity’ MP Oleksii Honcharenko complained on Thusday that Ukraine’s goverment failed to allocate funds to ‘protect Ukraine’s energy infrastructure” in the first quarter of 2024
The Accounting Chamber report shows the govermental spending on “energy infrastructure protection” has been cut by 21% compared to the last year, and, to make things worse, the first quarter of 2024 saw the goverment holding back the funds.
“Just to reiterate! In the first quarter, there were no expenditures for the protection of energy facilities at all! Then came the Russian shelling in March. Even after that, the allocated funds are being used less than planned. Who is responsible for this? Let them be housed on the 24th floor without power, without a [working] elevator, without an electric stove whent its plus 35 outside,” wroted Honcharenko.
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