The mayor of Melitopol announced the opening of a Russian bank in the city

The authorities of Melitopol announced a reduction in tariffs for electricity and water, and also allowed not to pay loans to Ukrainian banks that had left the city, said acting.Mayor Galina Danilchenko Galina Danilchenko

In Ukrainian Melitopol, which has been controlled by the Russian military since February, a branch of the Russian TsMRBank will open, Acting Mayor Galina Danilchenko said, Interfax reports.

“We are now preparing the opening of the first branch of TsMRBank. it will be the first Russian bank. Then it is planned to open branches,” Danilchenko said.

TsMRBank has been operating since 2015, the HEAD office is located in Moscow, follows from the bank's data on its website. Branches operate in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Belgorod and Crimea. The bank calls work with small and medium-sized businesses a priority direction.

According to her, a total of seven branches are planned to be opened, but decisions on this will be made based on demand. The opening of a Russian bank is necessary for the resumption of the work of industrial enterprises, in the next three weeks it is planned to introduce a new payment system that will allow buying raw materials in RUSSIA and selling finished products to it, the mayor of the city said.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations announced the payment of 70 million rubles. pensioners and state employees in Ukraine Economics

Ukrainian banks stopped working in the city, and Melitopol residents were allowed by local authorities not to pay on loans taken from them, Danilchenko said. Also, residents were written off their debts for electricity and water, and the tariffs for housing and communal services were reduced by an average of 30%, she added.

Danilchenko said that the gas rate has not yet been finally determined, but local authorities intend to revise the tariffs downward. She noted that in recent years, the price for consumers of gas has increased from 74 kopecks to 7.96 hryvnia (about 18 rubles) per cubic meter.

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According to her, social payments will be converted into rubles in May. “Ukraine has closed the financial department, the treasury, all registers. What used to be financed by the budget of Kyiv, now Russia will finance, ”said the acting. head of Melitopol.

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On May 1, in the Kherson region, which is completely controlled by the Russian military, they announced the transition to payments in rubles. There will be a transitional period for four months, when both the hryvnia and the Russian currency will be used. After that, the transition to the ruble will be fully implemented, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region. Also, the region announced the work of the International Settlement Bank, which had previously opened branches in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.

The use of the ruble has also begun in Berdyansk (Zaporozhye region), which is also controlled by the Russian military.

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