The OSCE is concerned: 600 thousand residents of the Luhansk region may celebrate the New Year without electricity and water
About 600 thousand residents of the Luhansk region on both sides of the demarcation line may be left without electricity and heating for Christmas.
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Alexander Hug, First Deputy of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine, announced this during a briefing.
According to him, this situation arose due to arrears in paying utility bills. Hug said the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was paying bills for residents in the area, had stopped making payments.
The OSCE representative called on the Ukrainian authorities to urgently solve this problem.
“There is a possibility that 600 thousand people in the Lugansk region on both sides of the demarcation line will celebrate the New Year holidays without electricity and heating. Their homes are powered and heated by those who pay the electricity bills that run the region's water stations. For two months these bills were paid by the International Committee of the Red Cross. If the competent authorities do not intervene, the stations will cease to operate. Because of the economic collapse, people will face the threat of celebrating Christmas in the cold and darkness,” he said.
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