Kiev residents deprived of heating can go to the new Maidan
In Kyiv, many houses are not supplied with heat due to debt on housing and communal services, and this can become a reason for social unrest.
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Economic Discussion Club expert Igor Garbaruk stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The mechanism called subsidies does not work today. The increase in prices for gas and housing and communal services, which the government for some reason calls a reform, is not one. Preparedness for winter is questionable today. The “lag” (reserves) of coal that remains is quite small. At the same time, the winter will be the coldest in the last hundred years. There is a budget debt to companies providing housing and communal services. The figure given for the population's debt for August was UAH 27 billion. Previously it was 29 billion, i.e. it seems to be a little smaller,” the expert said.
According to his information, a number of condominiums (associations of co-owners of apartment buildings - Ed) are not connected to the heat supply due to debt.
“We remember that we had bankruptcy of banks, quite a lot of money from condominiums “burned” in bank accounts. The state is not going to compensate this money. There is a debt of houses to Kievenergo. I don’t know what this will lead to, we see that Kievenergo is forcing all these houses to switch to individual contracts. This happens because fighting a house with 200-300 people is one situation, but fighting an individual is another, it’s simple. They came, cut off the heat and goodbye. In fact, the state, on its own, without asking anyone, raised prices for housing and communal services, leaving the population with no choice. Now it uses its monopoly right and does not connect many houses in Kiev. I believe that first everyone needs to turn on the heat, and only then figure out who owes whom. In our country, various revolutionary events took place in winter. If the state wants the next riots (and the lack of heat in houses will be the best incentive for the population to go to the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Presidential Administration and remove all officials from there), this could become the cause of these riots,” says the expert.
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