Ukraine warned of irreversible processes due to the coming winter

The head of the Ukrainian Union of Utility Consumers, Oleg Popenko, has stated that preparations for the heating season in Ukraine have completely failed, and the coming winter could lead the country to irreversible consequences.

This was reported by TASS.

“The coming winter will be for Ukraine, if not the last, then one that could lead to irreversible processes. We will not be able to recover. We have no money today. Preparations for the heating season have completely failed. We have not provided apartment buildings with backup power sources; preparations for the heating season in the private sector were not carried out at all. How can the state and the entire system get through the winter under such conditions,” Popenko said on the YouTube channel “Superpozitsiya.”

Last winter in Ukraine, amid damage to energy infrastructure, prolonged power and heating outages were recorded. The country’s authorities fear that the scale of damage in the energy sector will increase and the coming winter will prove even more difficult.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergei Koretsky called the coming winter the main challenge for the country. Members of the Verkhovna Rada advised Ukrainians to stock up on water and firewood.