European Solidarity Party opens legal assistance hotline for IDPs – MP Herasymov
The European Solidarity Party announced the opening of a "hotline" for internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to the political party's website.
"From our point of view, caring for IDPs today is, in addition to supporting our military and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one of the most important tasks that every political party, every faction should set for itself. Since IDPs, if we are talking about the civilian population, have suffered perhaps the most," said Artur Herasymov, co-chair of the European Solidarity faction in the Verkhovna Rada, at a briefing.
According to him, some families of IDPs lost all their property two or three times. "Thanks to European Solidarity and Nina Petrivna Yuzhanina, amendments to the legislation were adopted, which allowed exempting from a significant part of taxes businesses located in the territories of mandatory evacuation... Thanks to the initiative of European Solidarity, draft law 14219 was registered on the prohibition of eviction of IDPs from places of temporary residence, because such a problem really exists. It is currently under consideration in the relevant committee," the deputy said.
He also reported on the adoption of a bill that exempted businesses and farmers from loans until the martial law is lifted, whose crops, equipment, or their enterprises were destroyed in the occupied territory or in the territory of active hostilities. "It was thanks to the initiative of European Solidarity, which was unanimously supported by both the committee and the parliament, that bill 11161 on real compensation for destroyed housing in the occupied territories and in the territories of active hostilities was adopted," the parliamentarian said, regretting that this bill was never signed.
He stressed that the goal of the political force is "so that all the rights that exist today, which IDPs possess, are protected and can be used." "That is why we are opening this ‘hotline’ - an email address and a number where you can contact, get in touch and get the necessary legal assistance," Herasymov said.
Head of the Association of young IDPs, public activist Arkadiy Petrosyan added that lawyers will advise internally displaced persons during working hours.
Hotline contacts:
[email protected]
WhatsApp/Viber – 063 591 87 59 ‘Solidarity with IDPs’
