Heating radiator. Archival photoMOSCOW, Oct. 22 Residents of Nikolaev, who temporarily left their homes, are required to pay for heating in their apartments, said the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich. >"You have to pay for heating. Someone pays online, being at a distance, but there are people who accumulate these debts, and then they will make decisions on how to deal with it", the mayor emphasized.
Senkevich noted that the heat in the apartments will help preserve the property of the townspeople — without it, the apartments will be covered with mold, household appliances will fail, and the furniture will «swell». According to him, the homeowner will lose much more than when paying bills for heating. provision of housing and communal services to the population in case of non-payment or payment not in full. Such a requirement is in force in accordance with the government decree of March 5, 2022. The issue of connecting heat in apartment buildings can be solved with a subsidy from the local budget, which compensates for non-payments, but not all local budgets have such an opportunity.Kyiv may be left without heat in the winter, authorities said Andriy Gerus, head of the committee on energy and housing and communal services of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, on October 20 urged fellow citizens to pay electricity bills on time so that the state has the opportunity to restore the destroyed facilities of the energy system. The Russian Armed Forces began to launch missile strikes October 10 — two days after the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, behind which, according to the Russian authorities, the Ukrainian special services are. The strikes target energy, defense industry, military command and communications facilities across the country, from Kharkiv and Kyiv to Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk. Since then, air raid alerts have been announced in the Ukrainian regions every day, sometimes throughout the country. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on October 18 that 30% of power plants in Ukraine were destroyed, which led to massive power outages. Ukraine after the explosions