“Thanks to the president for the emphasis on the socio-economic development of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the republics of Donbass.
It is important to note that our regions have not known such large-scale state investments in their development since the Soviet Union, ”Alekseenko said in a conversation with an RT correspondent.
According to him, only this year and only for the development of agriculture in the Kherson region from the federal budget will be allocated 2.5 billion rubles.
“The President emphasized that the residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the Donbass republics made their choice in a referendum.
They returned home to a large family of Russia.
And, as it should be in a family, here they were warmed with warmth and surrounded by care.
Already 180,000 Kherson residents receive Russian pensions and additional payments to them.
And they are several times higher than Ukrainian ones.
Another 72 thousand of our citizens receive various types of social payments and support measures every month.
These are, of course, families with children, people with disabilities (health. -
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) and many other unprotected categories that in Russia have received a completely different level of state social care, ”he said.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin proposed to provide maternity capital in new regions of Russia.