PM: Government allocates UAH10 million for the restoration of Mariupol and assistance to victims of terrorist attacks

“The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approves a decision to allocate UAH10 million out of the reserve fund to the city of Mariupol, which should be spent on immediate restoration works, and from these funds the government of the city should provide financial assistance for the injured and families of those killed,” Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a Government’s meeting on Wednesday, January 28.

Regarding assistance to other settlements, including Avdiivka and Debaltseve, the Prime Minister said that the State Emergency Committee “works with the purpose to calculate the necessary amount of money and along with the local authorities and local businesses and with the help of the central Government to finance the immediate needs.”

Arseniy Yatsenyuk informed that the State Emergency Committee, which was established on January 26, operates to overcome the consequences of “the horrific attacks and killings of Ukrainian civilians by Russian fighters in Mariupol.”

“Every day at 16:30 p.m. the operational staff of the State Emergency Committee holds a meeting,” he stressed, recalling that yesterday such a meeting took place in Dnipropetrovsk headed by First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee, Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Regional Development, Construction Housing and Utilities of Ukraine Hennadii Zubko.

Today, a meeting of the operation staff is to be held in Poltava.

“All services, including the Emergency Service and public authorities are working to help victims and gradually begin the recovery process of Mariupol and other cities affected by the Russian terrorists,” the Prime Minister underlined.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk has reported that an extended meeting of the State Emergency Committee is to be held at the State Emergency Service next week: “Now the Government receives not only current information, but quickly decides on inventory of all objects of civil protection, all hospitals, all possible means for displaced persons in the event of possible evacuation. The Ministry of Health conducts an inventory of drugs and medicines and assesses the additional need for acquisition.”