Hanna Perekhoda is a historian and political scientist at the University of Lausanne. She comes from Donetsk, a city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Hanna is active in the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine and in Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), a socialist Ukrainian organisation.
Laura Helene May, freelance journalist in Buenos Aires, interviewed Hanna Perekhoda about the geopolitical turning point and feminist solidarity with Ukraine. Published in the Austrian (…)

La loi ukrainienne 2980, conçue pour indemniser les travailleurs des infrastructures critiques blessés ou tués par les attaques russes, ne remplit pas sa mission envers ceux qu'elle était censée protéger. Malgré les dotations budgétaires, 82 % des fonds restent inutilisés car la Caisse de retraite d'Ukraine rejette la grande majorité des demandes pour des motifs bureaucratiques — principalement parce que les employeurs des demandeurs ne figurent pas dans un registre officiel des opérateurs (…)

Ukraine's Law 2980, designed to compensate critical infrastructure workers injured or killed by Russian attacks, is failing the very people it was meant to protect. Despite budget allocations, 82% of funds remain unspent because the Pension Fund of Ukraine rejects the vast majority of claims on bureaucratic grounds—primarily that applicants' employers are not listed in an official registry of critical infrastructure operators. Courts have repeatedly ruled in favour of workers, recognising (…)