The payment of pensions and public sector salaries in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, will be suspended because of attacks on banks, post offices and infrastructural facilities, the interior minister said on May 19.
“In Sloviansk and Kramatorsk it has become critically impossible for
the state to carry out its function of supporting the population,” Arsen
Avakov told a news conference in Kyiv.
On Sunday, a natural gas distribution plant was captured, and
electricity transmission lines, railroads and other infrastructural
facilities were damaged, he said.
“Today, the rail terminal in Donetsk has been captured with all its
infrastructure, and so all these functions will be terminated. In the
same way, after the capture of post offices and bank branches and
assaults on cash collection vehicles in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk,
payments under state commitments involving pensions, salaries and so on
will apparently be halted,” Avakov said.
