MOSCOW, August 12 VTB will provide a deferment on loan repayments to residents of the affected areas of the Kursk and Belgorod regions and is already accepting their first applications; Sovcombank and PSB are ready to implement the moratorium, the credit institutions said.
A moratorium on mortgage and consumer loan payments is planned to be introduced in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov announced earlier on Monday during an operational meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
«VTB supports the initiative to introduce a credit moratorium for victims from the Kursk and Belgorod regions. The bank will provide a deferment to its clients on loan repayments. We are awaiting official clarifications from the regulator, but we are already accepting the first requests from clients and processing each request individually,» she said. bank press service.
They also reminded that the credit debt of clients with first-group disabilities and deceased clients will be written off. For all questions, clients or their relatives can contact the bank remotely in «VTB Online» or at the office.
«If your business has suffered, you can contact the office, call the customer center … or contact via the VTB Business Platform Internet bank. We will review the request within 24 hours,» the message on VTB's Telegram channel says.
Sovcombank announced its readiness to implement the decisions made. “We consider it the prerogative of the country’s leadership to determine the optimal procedure for supporting people in these regions. For our part, we will implement any decisions made,” said First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sovcombank Sergei Khotimsky.
PSB stated that it supports the initiative to write off mortgage loans when housing is destroyed as a result of shelling. 
< br />«Already now, PSB is providing a deferment of payments on consumer loans and mortgages for up to 6 months to all borrowers living in the evacuated border areas of the Belgorod and Kursk regions. A simplified procedure for granting credit holidays applies to them — to apply for a holiday, a person only needs to contact the bank in any available way, including calling the contact center; the deferment is provided on the day of the application,» the bank said in a statement.
PSB will also write off the debt on all loans of clients who died or were seriously wounded as a result of military action in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, as well as their family members. Victims or their immediate family members can apply for debt write-off at the PSB office.