Russia paying Mariupol pensioners in rubles: Ukraine

Kyiv, June 9 (UNI) Ukrainian officials have claimed that Russian forces after capturing Mariupol have begun paying pensioners there in Russian rubles, using cash, CNN reported on Thursday.
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported that around 46,000 applications for pension payments have been received, and that the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic has begun paying out those benefits in Russian rubles.
Ukranian officials also claimed that “But we must add another 20 to 30 percent of our elderly Mariupol people who do not accept the occupation and deliberately did not submit documents, and another 5 percent who could not physically come and submit documents. This is a critical amount for the city in which it is located.