Oleksiy Chernyshov, the Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, said that the heating season in 2022 will be the most difficult, but tariffs will not increase, the press service of the ministry reported. “The next heating season will start on time, tariffs will not grow and will be stable. It will be the most difficult in the history of Ukraine, but I am sure that we will cope with it. We are working together with local authorities to ensure that the heating season starts on time,” Chernyshov said.
According to him, now the heating industry faces many challenges due to the critical infrastructure destroyed as a result of full-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine. In particular, 331 boiler houses were destroyed or damaged, three heat communal enterprises in the cities of Okhtyrka, Kremenchuk and Chernihiv were destroyed.
“We must restore them before the start of the heating season, and we are determined to do this. Plans have already been developed to restore these enterprises, work is underway,” the minister said.
He also called on Ukrainians to be as careful as possible about keeping warm in their homes this winter.
“We must stop regulating the temperature in the premises by opening windows and prepare “in an adult way” for the next heating season. In particular, by introducing certain household preparation measures with windows, doors, roofs, porches and the like,” he said.
