This winter, more than 180 thousand Kyiv residents may be left without gas and heating – expert
1 October 17:58
More than 180,000 Kyiv residents may be left without gas and heating this winter after the shelling of infrastructure, and if the shelling continues, even more.
Oleh Popenko, chairman of the Union of Consumers of Public Utilities, said this in an interview on the "Komersant Ukrainian" YouTube channel.
“More than 180 thousand people are those who lived and still live in apartment buildings damaged by Russian shelling. Thousands of homes were left without heating and gas. In order to reconnect heating or gas, a technical inspection or technical audit must be conducted in these buildings, which will show what needs to be done and how to restore the building. Thousands of houses have not been audited, and there is no approved procedure at the level of the district state administration,” said Popenko.
According to the expert, some houses have been without gas since 2022, and no one is doing anything. Time has been lost because there is a procedure for announcing a tender for a technical inspection of a house – 21-25 days on Prozorro.
The technical inspection of the house takes 14-20 days. Then you need to draw up an estimate, which takes about 10 more days, and on its basis choose a contractor for the restoration work – it will also take about 20 days.
“In total, all procedures can take 4 months. They will not have time to do it this year, and the budget year ends on January 1,” says Popenko.
In addition, the expert emphasizes that Kyiv has a big problem in the public utilities sector. From November last year to March 31, 82 serious utility accidents occurred in Kyiv.
