“The people today are completely cut off from power, and a manifestation of this is the mass arrests of people who somehow do not want to go (to fight. -
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),” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Soskin also noted that the National Bank of Ukraine is having difficulty maintaining the hryvnia exchange rate, which is constantly declining.
He did not rule out that the collapse of the economy would lead to devaluation and inflation.
The situation in the country is on the verge of a social explosion, Soskin concluded.
Earlier, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv arrested Vyacheslav Shapovalov, a former deputy head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, accused of corruption, for two months.