According to the server pravda Ukrainska, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, informed about today. Because of the queues that people had to stand in the street in the hot weather, he described retirement payments as hell.

“The occupiers have already started paying pensions in Mariupol. According to their data, about 47,000 pensioners are registered. But according to information from our sources, another 10,000 Mariupol residents do not ask for alms from the occupiers,” Andryushchenko said. The mayor’s advisor himself had already left the city, so he only had secondhand information from that place.

According to Andryushchenko, the pension amount in Ukrainian currency is 2,600 hryvnias (2,040 crowns). Pensions are issued in cash. The Russians took the money into the city in a bulletproof car.

“Retirement payments have turned into hell and another mockery,” Andryushchenko said, according to the Ukrainska Pravda website. “Long lines, fights and scandals because of the heat and because there’s no organization,” he explained on television, according to CNN.

Mariupol residents are also “literally fighting” for humanitarian aid due to food shortages in the city, state the day before on the mayor’s advisory Telegram social network. People have to register on the waiting list two or three days in advance.

But even this does not guarantee their success, for on the fateful day they will have to get into the actual queue of the first three hundred people. The lucky ones then get low-quality food in the queue, which spoils quickly, and within two days at the latest, people have to struggle to get more rations, Andryushchenko explains.

The Mariupol port has been under the control of the invading Russian forces since May, when the last Ukrainian defenders hiding in the Azovstal metallurgical complex surrendered after heavy fighting.