Ukraine needs €4 billion to go through winter season: Minister
Ukraine needs €4 billion ($3.97 billion) to go through the winter cold season, Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov said.
“We need €4 billion to get through this winter to renovate houses, to support health care and energy supplies,” Mr Chernyshov said at the International Expert Conference on the Recovery, Reconstruction and Modernisation of Ukraine in Berlin, Germany.
“Besides, Ukraine lacks backup equipment for water and power supply such as mobile water purification stations, mobile heating stations, diesel generators and electric heaters,” the minister said.
Ukraine is facing an energy crisis ahead of the winter cold due to the conflict with Russia that started on February 24.
On October 18, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s attacks had destroyed about 30 per cent of Ukraine’s power stations, causing massive blackouts across the country.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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