Government instructs Kyiv to finalize its resilience plan by April, providing for development of distributed heat supply - Svyrydenko

The Cabinet of Ministers has instructed Kyiv to finalize its resilience plan by April, providing for the development of distributed heat supply. Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko has announced this on her Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

Svyrydenko said that Kyiv had presented a resilience plan at a meeting of the Coordination Center under the government, recalling that it is the last region whose winterization plan should be approved by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

The document provides for the protection of 57 critical infrastructure facilities and the installation of more than 200 MW of additional generation to power heat, water and sewage facilities by the end of 2026.

"The key priority of Kyiv's resilience plan should be the development of distributed heat supply. In this part, the plan needs to be finalized. We have instructed the developers of the plan to complete it by the beginning of April 2026," Svyrydenko said.

The total budget of the Kyiv Resilience Plan is UAH 61.6 billion, of which the city's own funds amount to UAH 10.6 billion, and the need for additional funding is UAH 51 billion.

Svyrydenko noted that the government provides the necessary assistance to the capital in the preparation of the plan and will support its implementation after its approval.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on March 3, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the National Security and Defense Council had approved resilience plans for the next winter for all regions, except Kyiv.

The government has set up a Coordination Center chaired by the Prime Minister to implement resilience plans for Ukraine's regions.

Svyrydenko said that the implementation of regional energy resilience plans, together with the needs of Kyiv, requires funding of almost UAH 278 billion.