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“People Are Just Gobbling This Crap on the Streets”: Kernes Says Kharkiv Is Drowning in Drugs

“People Are Just Gobbling This Crap on the Streets”: Kernes Says Kharkiv Is Drowning in Drugs
“People Are Just Gobbling This Crap on the Streets”: Kernes Says Kharkiv Is Drowning in Drugs

Kharkiv's mayor criticised police inaction.

Kharkiv Mayor Gennadiy Kernes said Kharkiv is suffering from the spread of drugs. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

According to Kernes,  the spread of drugs has become the main problem on Kharkiv's city agenda. The mayor believes the police are not coping and publicly asks the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kharkiv Oblast to respond to the demands of Kharkiv residents. However, “knowing the reality”, he does not rule out starting to fight the problem by other means, calling on Kharkiv residents to inform city authorities about cases of drug sales and distribution in the first capital.

Gennadiy Kernes
Mayor of Kharkiv

I know this city, and people have never been so terrified by what is happening. This topic comes up first at meetings and receptions, and in private social media messages people write hundreds of addresses of “stashes” where real trafficking goes on, whether in the centre or on the outskirts, with fences in the addresses. Drug addicts are simply gobbling this crap on the streets.