Almost 1,400 residential buildings in Kyiv without heat supply - Klitschko
Today, there are almost 1,400 residential buildings in Kyiv without heat supply. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said this on his Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
According to him, there are more than 1,100 high-rise buildings in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi Districts that cannot be supplied with heat due to critical damage to the Darnytsia Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP) and more than 200 more buildings in different districts where emergency damage has occurred, which are being repaired by utilities and power engineers.
Klitschko said that to support the residents of the capital in this crisis situation, today the Kyiv City Council should decide to provide a loan to purchase generators for the period of martial law and for six months after its termination or cancellation.
He noted that most high-rise buildings in Kyiv do not have sufficient resources for the prompt purchase of autonomous power sources, so it is about introducing a simplified and efficient mechanism of financial support for co-owners of apartment buildings, namely, providing targeted interest-free loans for the purchase of generators at the expense of the Fund for Modernization and Development of the Housing Stock of Kyiv.
Klitschko emphasized that these loans are exclusively for generators, and they will be available to condominiums, housing cooperatives, cooperative houses, and co-owners of houses where condominiums and housing cooperatives have not been created. The loans will be provided at 0% per annum for up to one year.
The mayor also said that the deputies should decide to provide one-time financial assistance in the amount of UAH 40,000 to Kyiv residents who found themselves in difficult life circumstances as a result of an accident on engineering networks (water and heat supply), which damaged their homes. These are accidents caused by enemy attacks on infrastructure.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Klitschko said that the Darnytsia Combined Heat and Power Plant was critically damaged during the russian attack on February 3, and it would take at least two months to restore it. At the same time, the mayor provided a list of 1,126 houses in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi Districts that cannot be supplied with heat until the damaged Darnytsia CHPP is repaired.
On February 9, the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development reported that heat supply had been restored to the Troieshchyna residential area in Kyiv.