“Svyridenko clarified that the funds will be used for equipment for the production of “heat and electricity where it is most needed now.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Prime Minister Yuliya Svyridenko clarified that the funds will be used for equipment for the production of “heat and electricity where it is most needed.”
“These funds will be used to purchase high-power generators for the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions. This equipment can be redirected to other regions where there is an acute need,” she said.
According to Svyridenko, purchases will be made according to simplified procedures without delay. Separately, the government identified the responsible customer and established the procedure for the use of generation – for heating, water supply and drainage facilities.
“In the conditions of constant Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure, we need not only large energy facilities, but also smaller installations of distributed generation – independent of the operation of centralized networks,” the premier added.
Oleksiy Kuleba, Minister of Development of Communities and Territories, commented on the decision, pointing out the need to strengthen communities with alternative and decentralized solutions.
“A separate decision was made to create a working group for the verification of cogeneration plants, generators and other equipment – to see the real picture in each district of Kyiv and use the available resources as efficiently as possible,” he added.
Russian troops at night inflicted another massive attack on Ukraine on the night of January 20. In Kyiv 5,635 high-rise buildings remained without heatalmost 80 percent of them are houses where heating was restored after the shelling on January 9.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed evening addresswhich remain without electricity in Kyiv on the evening of January 20 over a million consumersthere is no light in more than 4 thousand high-rise buildings.
In Vinnytsia, a night Russian attack hit a critical infrastructure facility. Also about damage to the power facility the local authorities of Odesa reported. In Poltava Oblast, they announced strike on an industrial facility.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has been striking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Since the beginning of the fall of 2025, Russian forces have intensified their attacks on the Ukrainian energy industry.
Security Service of Ukraine qualifies Russia’s strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure as crimes against humanity. The SBU previously noted that since the beginning of this year’s heating season, it has documented 256 aerial attacks of the Russian Federation on energy facilities and heat supply systems of Ukraine.
