A shipment of 76 emergency generators from EU strategic reserves arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to restore power supply to Ukrainian settlements.
According to an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, this is immediate assistance from the EU for urgent needs and is part of the EU’s ongoing support for Ukraine’s energy security.
During a conversation with journalists, European Union Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova noted that she was pleased to have the opportunity to “demonstrate the concrete assistance that the European Union is providing to Ukraine.”
“This is only a small part of the equipment that we are transferring to Ukraine. Another part is still at customs,” she said.
The ambassador explained that this is part of 447 generators previously announced by the European Commission due to extremely low temperatures in Ukraine in January. The total cost of these generators is EUR 3.7 million.
In general, more than 10,000 generators have already been transferred through the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In total, as Maternova noted, the EU has already provided EUR 190 billion in aid since the start of the full-scale invasion.
