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To get through winter season, Ukraine needs 4 billion euros
Ukraine needs 4 billion euros (about 3.97 billion U.S. dollars) to go through the winter cold season, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Tuesday (Oct 25), citing Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov.
"We need four billion euros to get through this winter -- to renovate houses, to support health care and energy supplies," 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.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Ukraine is facing an energy crisis ahead of the winter cold season.
Russia is targeting Ukrainian cities like Kyiv, their power plants and other infrastructure using missiles and drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media that over the past week Russia has destroyed 30 percent of the country’s power plants. This has caused “massive blackouts across the country.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased attacks on civilian energy centers after Ukraine’s strike on an important bridge in Crimea.
This has left many cities without electricity including Kyiv, Sumy in the northeast, and Vinnystsia in the west.
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