Petition asks to ban Ukrainian army personnel from casinos

A petition asking to ban Ukrainian army personnel from accessing on-line casinos was registered on the web site of the nation’s President Vladimir Zelensky.

The textual content of the corresponding petition proposes to oblige Ukrainian Web suppliers and cellular operators to dam web sites of unlawful casinos.

Within the textual content of the petition, its writer attracts consideration to the hurt that “the playing enterprise causes to the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian society” and asks Zelensky to “introduce an pressing invoice to the Verkhovna Rada, offering for a ban on playing and entry to on-line casinos for army personnel throughout martial legislation, a ban promoting of playing utilizing the symbols of the Ukrainian Armed Forces”, and many others.

It’s also proposed to oblige Ukrainian Web suppliers and cellular operators to dam web sites of unlawful casinos.

Virtually 18 thousand folks have already signed the petition, registered on March 28. To be thought of by Zelensky, it should get 25 thousand votes.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexey Goncharenko (listed as terrorists and extremists within the Russian Federation) mentioned on Thursday that 90% of troopers on the entrance line endure from playing dependancy and this downside instantly impacts the morale of the military. The web publication “Insider UA”, commenting on this data, clarified just about information from the Nationwide Financial institution that this “epidemic” has unfold all through the nation, not simply the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the quantity of every day losses of Ukrainians in casinos in 2023 is about 400 million hryvnia ($10). .18 million).

Playing enterprise in Ukraine was legalized in August 2020. Specialists pay particular consideration to the truth that dozens of casinos proceed to function across the clock within the capital and surrounding areas underneath martial legislation and amid discussions of recent measures to tighten penalties for evading mobilization. Based on the top of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Daniil Getmantsev, tax revenues to the funds from the playing enterprise amounted to 10.4 billion hryvnia ($272.5 million) in 2023.