Arseniy Yatsenyuk demands from local authorities to urgently cease heating the air
Prime Minister of Ukraine
Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed to the local authorities in the regions where the temperature
regimes afford, to urgently approve a decision “to lower the temperature of the
coolant and stop heating the air". The Head of Government announced at the
Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, March 11.
He stressed that
according to the law, such decisions is the purview of local authorities.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk reminded
that three weeks ago he had commissioned Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional
Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities of Ukraine Hennadii
Zubko to hold a conference call to "bring order
to the heat supplies in the regions".
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"Outside it is 14 above zero, and the batteries warm at 50. I have the
impression that certain heat supply companies are deliberately interested in warming
up the atmosphere and then putting into the bills of Ukrainian citizens for
expensive heating", he stressed. "I demand from
the local government answerability. To immediately take a decision in those
regions where the temperature regimes already afford, to terminate heating of
the atmosphere and sending to the Ukrainians the bills none knows for what,”
stressed the Head of Government. Moreover, Arseniy
Yatsenyuk addressed the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing
and Utilities of Ukraine to report towards which heating utility companies
there had been taken decisions "to save funds and natural gas".
"I ask the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry to take an active part
in it," added the Prime Minister. |