Igor Klymenko: We are preparing a document on the safe life of citizens of Ukraine after the end of the war
This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs during an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, answering journalists' questions about the post-war environment inside the country.
The head of the department Igor Klymenko said that the country's authorities understand what difficult challenges await Ukraine after the end of the war. In particular, we are talking about millions of people who were forced to leave their homes, the criminogenic situation in the country, the mental security of citizens and so on:
“The social and economic problems caused by the war force us to prepare for the first day after the victory. First of all, this concerns the criminogenic situation. We are well aware that our soldiers will return from the front, and the burden of war will be on them for many years to come — physically and morally. The war has been making itself felt for many decades. In the first decade, it is critical. Therefore, today we are preparing a comprehensive document - it will be either a strategy or a law on how the country will live after the war, how we should build and maintain a safe environment inside our country.”
The Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko said that this is not only about the so-called police security. It is important to ensure the safe stay of citizens in educational institutions, on the streets, in shopping centers, at stations and bus stops.
“Those thousands of fighters who return from the front must feel social support, psychological support, they must feel that they are needed by the state. This requires jobs, requires attention to their treatment, their rehabilitation. It is necessary that everyone who returns from the front feels that there is a person who deals with them,” the Head of the Department stressed.
In particular, Igor Klymenko said that for this purpose a fundamentally new unit has been created in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is engaged in, among other things, social rehabilitation:
“The first thing we started with was the registry. We need to know who in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was injured and who died. We do not forget our wounded people or the families of the dead. This base will display where he was wounded, in which unit he served, and what exactly the wound was. This information will only be open to doctors and to a soldier or police officer. After the treatment of the soldier, we organize his rehabilitation, prosthetics.”
Igor Klymenko said that it is extremely important that the soldier immediately receives help and support after being wounded and understands that he will not be abandoned tomorrow.
“This Safe Country Act, which we are currently working on, just speaks of human-centricity. If the principle of human-centricity is embedded in all our strategies, concepts, in any legislative act, then we have a future. And our society will be filled with understanding of each other and help. We want the Ministry of Internal Affairs to become such a pioneer in this concept. I am sure that we will succeed,” the Head of the Department summed up.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
