EU sends 447 generators to Ukraine

The European Union has sent 447 generators to Ukraine for hromadas across the country, with a focus on frontline areas. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Source: Oleksii Kuleba, Deputy Prime Minister for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, on social media

Details: Kuleba said that the delivery includes 445 small-capacity generators and two high-capacity units. The total value of the aid is €3.7 million.

The generators earmarked for Kyiv will support the capital's critical infrastructure.

The assistance will also go to Kyiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Sumy and Mykolaiv oblasts.

The shipment is delivered through the European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) from rescEU reserves in cooperation with the Ukrainian Red Cross Society.

Quote: "We expect the delivery to arrive in Ukraine within a week. This is important support for the uninterrupted operation of schools, hospitals, social facilities, shelters and warming centres, as well as boiler houses, water intakes, treatment facilities and artesian wells."

Background:

• Ukraine's energy authorities have said that a recent large-scale Russian strike on energy infrastructure left some consumers without power in Kyiv and in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Kharkiv oblasts.
• Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that damage to critical infrastructure had left nearly 6,000 apartment buildings without heating again. Most of these are buildings that had already been reconnected, or attempts had been made to reconnect them to the heat supply, after the attacks on 9 and 20 January.
• The Ukrainian government has approved a support package for businesses amid the emergency energy situation.
• Ukraine is set to receive more than 6,000 pieces of large-scale energy equipment along with new contributions to the Energy Support Fund.
• On 21 January, Denmark announced a contribution of more than €20 million for Ukraine's energy support.
• Japan is set to provide 140 small- and medium-capacity generators, 60 small and medium transformers and repair equipment, 2 cogeneration units and 13 sets of frequency converters.
• In recent days, six humanitarian shipments with a total weight of more than 50 tonnes have arrived in Ukraine from the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Spain and Norway.
• Ukraine has also received 39 pieces of industrial boiler equipment with a combined capacity of nearly 53 MW, provided by the Italian government.

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