Ministry for Communities and Territories Development and the Netherlands join forces to provide urgent support for energy and heat supply in Ukraine

The Ministry for Communities and Territories Development held a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development of the Netherlands, Aukje de Vries, which was chaired by the Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development, Maryna Denysiuk. The meeting focused on operational support for the energy sector, stability during the heating season, and the involvement of Dutch businesses in reconstruction and the implementation of projects under the public-private partnership mechanism.

The Ukrainian energy system is operating under intense russian shelling. russia is attacking infrastructure facilities, and the cold weather is significantly increasing the load on the electricity, heat, and water supply systems.

"Today, Ukraine's energy infrastructure is under constant pressure due to massive shelling. The enemy is deliberately attacking distribution networks and heat-generating facilities directly in cities. This is an attempt to leave millions of people in Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kyiv without light and heat. In this situation, it is the communities that become the basis of our resilience. The Ministry for Communities and Territories Development's priority is to provide cities with alternative energy sources for water utilities, boiler rooms, and pumping stations. Our main task is to decentralize power generation locally. Communities must be given the tools to make every hospital, school, heating facility, and water utility autonomous and independent of centralized networks," says Maryna Denysiuk.

At the meeting, the parties discussed the need to support the energy sector, as well as specific steps that would help to achieve this goal. Maryna Denysiuk provided her partners with a consolidated list of critical community needs to prevent a humanitarian disaster during the heating season. The parties agreed on further synchronization of needs and opportunities: this will allow the Dutch side to supply equipment that fully complies with the parameters of Ukrainian networks.

Earlier, the Netherlands allocated EUR 300 million for reconstruction in 2025–2026, as announced at URC-2025 in Rome. In October 2025, an additional EUR 25 million in emergency aid was announced to meet critical needs in the energy sector and support urban life support systems.

Maryna Denysiuk also stressed that the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development is working on the formation of new models of public-private partnerships. Models in the port sector, water supply and sanitation, and healthcare are already in place and attracting investment. Representatives of 17 Dutch companies in the energy and healthcare sectors, who are considering investments in the reconstruction and development of Ukraine's critical and social infrastructure, arrived in Kyiv on a visit.