The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has decided to allocate UAH 1.8 billion in support of 180 communities located in the frontline regions. These are settlements in nine regions that regularly suffer from Russian shelling.
Prime Minister Denis Shmigal has informed about it, emphasizing that the urgent needs of communities that were on the fire line.
Communities from the following regions will receive monetary support:
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Kharkiv
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Sumy
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Donetsk
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Lugansk
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Kherson
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Nikolaevskaya
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Dnepropetrovsk
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Zaporizhzhya regions
In total, 180 territorial communities were included in the list.
Money will be directed to four key directions, each of which is critically important for people's lives in high -risk areas:
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Emergency recovery work after shelling and attacks
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Construction of shelters in schools, hospitals and residential areas
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Purchase of special equipment for utilities - generators, technique for clearing rubble, water ducts
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Repair of critical infrastructure, including heat supply and gas supply
This is no longer the first allocation of funds within the framework of the supporting areas. However, the scale of this tranche is one of the largest since the beginning of 2024.
Many frontier communities such as Kupyansk, Nikopol or Ochakov have been living in extremely difficult conditions for a long time - daily arrivals, destroyed houses, lack of elementary protection. Without centralized support, they will not be able to recover on their own.
According to the Minregion, the distribution of funds was based on the requests of the communities themselves, as well as data on damage to infrastructure.
