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July 31, 2024The number of Ukrainians with debts for utility services has increased by 37% since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022.
This is evidenced by data from the registration data monitoring service “Opendatabot.”
Most often, Ukrainians do not pay for heating (258,800 debtors), water supply (130,200 debtors), and electricity (67,900 debtors). The regions leading in utility debt are Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Donetsk.
Other utility services for which Ukrainians owe include:
- Housing services – 67,100 or 9.6%;
- Gas supply – 59,700 or 8.5%;
- Waste removal – 7,600 or 1.1%.
In 15.6% of cases, the specific utility service could not be determined, accounting for about 109,000 debts.
“Since the full-scale invasion, the number of utility debts has increased by a third, according to the Unified State Register of Debtors. Most non-payers are concentrated in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions. Most often, court cases arise over debts for heating and water,” reports the service.
Currently, there are 701,000 court cases in Ukraine regarding the recovery of debts for housing and utility services.
Since the start of the full-scale war, a moratorium was in place in Ukraine on the forced collection of debts and disconnection from utility networks for debtors. In 2024, this moratorium was lifted. Now, measures against debtors are not applied only if the consumer’s premises were damaged due to hostilities.