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MP Lutsenko hopes to get Yanukovych funds in 2018 for programs to protect women from violence

The Ukrainian president's representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Bloc of Petro Poroshenko MP Iryna Lutsenko, has said she expects that next year it will be possible to receive about UAH 30 billion from the entourage of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, part of which will be used to finance programs to protect women from violence.

"The implementation of the laws [on protection] against domestic violence, which were adopted last week, gains special significance. We will have to pass hundreds of documents to ensure that the norms established by the law start working, victims of domestic violence receive full assistance, and each offender receives a state response - from a correctional program to imprisonment, depending on what was done," she wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday, December 14, after a meeting with government officials, international organizations, embassies and employees of mobile teams for social and psychological assistance.

Speaking about the financing of such programs, she said that "next year the government will have about UAH 30 billion from a special confiscation," explaining that "the money of Yanukovych" and his associates would be used to finance the army, rural medicine, infrastructure, and social projects, "including for the creation of shelters for victims of violence, the 'hotline' and other measures to prevent and eliminate the consequences of domestic violence."

Lutsenko also cited the Social Policy Ministry's statistics, according to which one in four women in Ukraine suffers from violence, while the overwhelming majority of such cases (from 70%) occur at home, in families.

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