Low-quality children and sterilisation of Ukrainians: scandal involving Servant of the People MP Tretyakova

She hinted that people receiving social assistance should be sterilised.

People's Deputy from the Servant of the People faction and head of the Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights Halyna Tretyakova said that children born to unemployed citizens are of "very low quality," and also raised the question of the need to sterilise citizens who apply for or receive social assistance.

In a video published online, Tretyakova discussed the expediency of paying social assistance to the unemployed.

Halyna Tretyakova
People's Deputy from the Servant of the People

When we demographically provide such funds that are used by a family, and a child is born not so that they can be given equal rights and education, but in order to receive material aid, then we will get, I'll say it bluntly, children of very low quality. They lead to them also going on state benefits.

As an example, Tretyakova cited measures to combat unemployment in the United Kingdom and Singapore. According to her, a British deputy minister of social policy once proposed sterilising citizens who apply for social assistance. And in Singapore, a former prime minister allegedly sterilised women without higher education.

In connection with Tretyakova's statement, the Standing Commission on Equal Rights of Women and Men of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine published an open letter to Verkhovna Rada Speaker Dmytro Razumkov demanding the resignation of the People's Deputy.

The appeal on the website states: "On behalf of the trade union community and its women's branches, the statement of the Standing Commission of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine on equal rights of women and men condemns the antisocial and inhumane position of the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights Halyna Tretyakova."