Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko chaired the ninth meeting of the Coordination Center for the implementation of comprehensive resilience plans for regions and cities. The main topic of the meeting was the protection of the country’s critical infrastructure facilities.
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Funding and new stages of infrastructure protection
Svyrydenko emphasized that the first stage of constructing protective structures for critical infrastructure must be completed by June 1. A total of 22.1 billion hryvnias has already been allocated for these purposes, of which 8.9 billion has been used to complete transitional facilities and to prepay for new ones specified in the plans. Meeting participants specifically addressed the issue of additional protection for substations against FPV drone attacks, which threaten the security of the energy system.
“Together with the heads of regional military administrations, we updated the list of facilities within the resilience plans and approved further work in accordance with the ‘Fortress Country’ concept,” the Prime Minister informed.
Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction, Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Kuleba reported that of the 22 billion hryvnias allocated for the physical protection of infrastructure, 17.3 billion has already been transferred to the accounts of contractors: regional military administrations, the Recovery Agency, and Ukrzaliznytsia. Rivne, Volyn, Ternopil, Kirovohrad, and Kherson regions have fully utilized the funds received.
Modernization of heating and water supply
At the beginning of April, the government allocated 424.8 million hryvnias to regions for the connection of 70 block-module boiler houses with a total capacity of 316 MW. Installation is planned to begin on June 1. Additionally, the Cabinet of Ministers allocated 3 billion hryvnias from the state budget reserve fund yesterday for the purchase and installation of 216 new block-module boiler houses in Kyiv and the regions.
Since March 1, 319 MW of distributed generation has already been put into operation within the resilience plans, and the installation of gas generator units with a total capacity of another 541 MW is ongoing. By the end of the year, it is planned to add 1.5 GW of new capacity to the energy system.
Separately, the meeting discussed ensuring heating and water supply facilities with backup power sources. The greatest need for such sources is in Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions. The Ministry of Community and Territorial Development has been instructed to keep this issue under constant control. According to the minister, the total need for backup power sources is 1210 MW, and currently, over 69% of the necessary capacity has been secured.
Svyrydenko stressed that systematic preparation for the winter period remains one of the government’s key tasks, and from June 1, work will begin on constructing protective walls at critical and energy infrastructure facilities. All regional military administrations have already received approval for the lists of expenses and are ready to start the installation of block-module boiler houses without delays.