Residents of 9 oblasts will receive UAH 21 thousand each: details
21 August 2024 19:07
Residents of the frontline areas will receive UAH 21,000 to buy fuel for their households. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the The Ministry of for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.
Residents of the following regions will receive financial assistance:
- Sumy,
- Kharkiv, and
- Kherson,
- Luhansk,
- Donetsk,
- Dnipropetrovska,
- Zaporizhzhia,
- Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia,
- Chernihiv, and Donetsk regions.
Important! First of all, we are talking about households within 10 kilometres of the contact line or the border with Russia.
How much is involved: a one-time payment of UAH 21 thousand to a household.
What the money can be spent on: purchase of solid household fuel.
It should be noted that the payments became possible due to the fact that on 21 August, the Ministry of Reintegration and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) signed a Memorandum of Support for Frontline Communities during the next winter period. The document was signed by Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk and UNHCR Representative in Ukraine Caroline Lindholm Billing.
the $30 million provided by UNHCR is part of a larger assistance package. The total amount of this package is $100 million, as announced by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi during a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
