Fifty-two new heating points equipped with generators and other necessary equipment have opened in the capital’s Goloseevsky, Dneprovsky, Obolonsky and Svyatoshinsky districts, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a telegraph feed on Friday.
“We opened 52 new points where people can get warm, recharge their gadgets, get up-to-date information in case of a prolonged lack of electricity and heat in their homes, in Goloseevsky, Dneprovsky, Obolonsky and Svyatoshinsky districts,” he wrote in Telegram.
According to the mayor of the capital, now in Kiev “there are 532 heating points, which the city has prepared (50 of them – equipped tents SES). The business is also involved: more than 100 additional points are provided by entrepreneurs.
As Klitschko noted, the situation with electricity remains difficult. “Recently, we received humanitarian aid from the city of Riga – 49 generators and heat guns, which, in particular, were used to equip additional heating points. Also we received 9 powerful generators from the Danish twin city of Odense. We will install them in the boiler rooms of the capital”, – the mayor reminded.
Kiev has deployed more than 400 heating points, most of them are equipped in schools and other social institutions of the city, said the mayor of the capital, Vitaliy Klitschko.
“These stations will work every day. Most of them are equipped in schools and other social institutions of the city. If your house has no power supply for more than a day, you can come to the heating point to recharge your gadgets or flashlights, drink tea, find out information about where the water tanks are, where stores and pharmacies are open,” he wrote in the Telegram-channel.
Klitschko added that also “we are working to ensure that for each point the Internet works.”
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko appealed to the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany to transfer generators and mobile heating units to Kyiv as an aid, according to the website of the mayor of the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday.
“I am talking with German partners about helping the Ukrainian capital and the people of Kiev to get through this heating season, which will be very difficult under martial law. In particular, I appealed to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany to provide Kyiv with generators and mobile heating points as assistance,” wrote Klitschko in the Telegram channel.
The mayor of Kyiv also said that the Ukrainian capital will acquire mobile mobile boilers as a backup source of heat supply in case of emergency during the heating season. They will provide heat to hospitals, kindergartens, schools, and will work at heating points that the city will deploy.
