Klitschko: Kyiv Needs More Than 30 Billion Hryvnia to Prepare for Winter
Kyiv needs more than 30 billion hryvnias to prepare for the heating season. City officials plan to fund these efforts jointly with the government on a 50-50 basis.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko made this statement during the URC 2026 Conference on Ukraine’s Recovery in Gdańsk, Poland.
According to him, the plan developed jointly with the Cabinet of Ministers primarily calls for decentralizing the capital’s heating system to ensure its resilience in the event of new attacks on energy infrastructure.
Klitschko emphasized that the project must be implemented in less than six months. At the same time, he cited a lack of financial resources, time, and manpower as the main challenges.
The mayor also called on the government to engage in more systematic cooperation to carry out the approved plan. He noted that Kyiv has already established backup water supply and sewage systems and is now working on decentralizing the heating system in every district of the city.
Source: Vitali Klitschko.
Ukraine and Switzerland have agreed to begin priority restoration work on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra following the Russian attack. The focus is now on the Cathedral of the Dormition, which was damaged and requires urgent protection from further destruction.
St. Nicholas Church in Kyiv has been given a new chance at salvation—during an international conference in Gdańsk, an agreement was signed on technical support for its restoration, which includes the installation of scaffolding and the launch of priority restoration work. The project is estimated to cost approximately 1 million euros, and its implementation will mark the start of a large-scale restoration of the shrine, which has long been in urgent need of assistance.
