The government has clarified the co-financing mechanism for critical infrastructure protection: what is changing
4 May 16:20
For most regions of Ukraine, co-financing for the protection of critical infrastructure remains at a level of at least 20%. This was reported by Government Head Yulia Svyrydenko, according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
According to her, funding is being reduced for frontline and the most heavily burdened regions:
- to 10% for the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Chernihiv regions;
- to 15% — for Dnipropetrovsk region.
She noted that co-financing from local budgets applies only to municipal property.
“We took into account the proposals of the Regional State Administration and the actual capabilities of communities that are directing resources toward defense, security, and people’s basic needs. We determined that co-financing from local budgets applies only to municipal property,” Svyrydenko reported
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The government has also provided local governments with the opportunity to finance local businesses for the implementation of Resilience Plans using funds from the reserve fund on a non-repayable basis.
“This will enable communities to move more quickly from planning to implementation—to finance work and launch projects in energy, heat supply, and water supply,” the official noted.
According to Svyrydenko, the total cost of the Sustainability Plans is 278 billion hryvnias. The state has already allocated 22.8 billion hryvnias for priority work to protect critical infrastructure
Earlier, the government directed 3 billion UAH from the state budget’s reserve fund to advance funding for 247 new block-modular boiler houses (BMK) with a total capacity of 1.3 GW.
As a reminder, in March, at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council chaired by the President of Ukraine, Comprehensive Resilience Plans for regions and regional centers were approved as part of the country’s preparations for the upcoming fall-winter period.
It states that Comprehensive resilience plans are based on four key areas: critical infrastructure protection, distributed generation development, backup and alternative power supplies, and the decentralization of heat generation. Their implementation will help increase the autonomy of regions and the readiness of life support systems to operate under wartime conditions.
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