Journalist Yuriy Nikolov compared the prices paid by the Ministry of Defense and the State Border Service.

The difference was enormous.

He wrote about it on his Facebook.

"As far as I understand, people's deputies already know the price of food at the Ministry of Defense and border guards. These guys are fighting in the neighboring trenches, and I am sure that they eat the same. But the purchase prices turned out to be different," Nikolov noted.

Thus, according to him, the Ministry of Defense contracted, for example, chicken thighs at a price of 120 hryvnias per kilogram, while the State Security Service buys chicken at 51-78 hryvnias per kg.

In addition:

  • potatoes: 22 in MO and 6.90 in DPSU;

  • cabbage: 30 in MO and 9.93-17.00 in DPSU.

  • beet: 25 in MO and 6.00-13.50 in DPSU.

  • onion: 42 in MO and 17.00-26.00 in DPSU.

  • buckwheat: 83 in MO and 53.10-56.20 in DPSU.

  • oil: 109 in MO and 58.69 in DPSU.

  • eggs: from border guards - 5.10-6.60 hryvnias per piece.

"At the same time, all the prices of border guards are one and a half times lower than store prices. Because there are no store markups in wholesale military supplies. There are no marketing payments per shelf. And there, the cost of delivery from the food base to the military warehouse is also sewn into the price of the product, as in the case of delivery from of the food base to the store. And in the same way, retail chains work with suppliers of products with deferred payment, just like military customers," the journalist wrote.

He emphasized that the People's Deputies "should have more questions for Reznikov", saying that "some have too obvious a desire to flush the situation down the toilet."

It will be recalled that Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, director of the procurement department of the Ministry of Defense, was dismissed from his position due to a scandal involving food purchases of the Ministry of Defense.

In addition, after the start of the scandal, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikova Vyacheslav Shapovalov resigned from the Ministry of Defense.

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