““Dear Kyivites and residents of communities around Kyiv! 400 generators of various types from government stocks are coming to you from Poland. Poland helps””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Dear Kyivites and residents of communities around Kyiv! 400 generators of various types from government stocks are coming to you from Poland. Poland is helping,” he wrote on the X social network in the evening of January 21.
Last week, Poland announced a charity fundraiser for generators and other equipment for Kyiv amid the emergency situation in the energy sector. As of January 21, more than five million zlotys (about 60 million hryvnias) have been collected as part of the “Heat for Kyiv” campaign. More than 40,000 people contributed. The action was organized by the Polish foundation Stand with Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has been striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
After the last massive attacks by the Russian Federation, the energy system of Ukraine is under a state of emergency, the most difficult situation, according to the President of Ukraine, is in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
In particular, in Kyiv, about 4,000 houses are still without heat, almost 60% of the city is without electricity, additional measures and additional resources are needed for their restoration, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said after the energy selector on January 21.