Many residents of Mariupol occupied by Russia did not pay pensions, and life in the city after the arrival of Russian troops is “worse than in hell.” This was told by The Guardian Mariupol residents who managed to leave the city.
A local resident Tatyana, who left Mariupol in April, said that her mother and sister were in the city. The authorities established by Russia promised to pay money, but very few received it. According to her, pro -Russian officials ordered that only those Mariupol residents who changed Ukrainian passports to Russian.
could receive pensions.
In addition, according to the sources of the publication, people are largely cut off from the outside world, since access to mobile communications and the Internet is still limited in the city. A month after the end of the siege, the townspeople continue to live without access to the main amenities. The publication cites the words of the 55-year-old locksmith Vladimir Korchma, who had been living in Mariupol all his life to the Russian invasion: “It was worse than in hell. There are no words to describe it. We had neither gas nor electricity. There were only lucky water. “,” the man said. He left the city at the end of May.
a girl named Ekaterina, who in early May managed to get out of Mariupol to the border Rostov-on-Don, spoke about the screens with Russian propaganda. “They put these screens around all the main areas … When my mother and I stood in line for food and water, we were forced to listen to stories about how we were freed from the Nazis,” she said.
At the same time, on June 7, the city administration Telegram channel reported that the authorities of the so-called “DPR” began to pay pensions to residents of Mariupol. The “Pension Fund of the Donetsk People’s Republic” in the city of Mariupol began the payment of the first cash benefits. Today and in the coming days, those citizens who were among the first submitted an application for re -registration of pension payments, ”the report said. The pro -Russian city hall claimed that the inhabitants of Mariupol submitted “46,608 applications for the appointment and resumption of pension payments”.