Restoration and protection of energy facilities are key tasks for this year. This was emphasised by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on 3 January. He added that the Government would also continue to develop distributed generation and build infrastructure. This, in turn, will make it possible to import more electricity from Europe.

“The Ukrainian gas transmission system now operates without transit of russian gas, and it is important to implement a new model of its operation this year. We will pay special attention to the development of the concept ‘Ukraine is Europe’s gas safe’,” the Head of Government said.

In addition, according to Denys Shmyhal, the Government plans to implement a new approach to public capital investment.

“Over UAH 200 billion will be allocated to the state’s highest priority projects, all of which have been assessed based on their economic feasibility and technical readiness for implementation,” said the Prime Minister.

Also, according to him, the eVidnovlennia programme will be continued. Its funding will be increased, among other things, at the expense of funds from the use of frozen russian assets.

The eOselia affordable mortgage programme will also be continued. This week the Government had decided to allocate an additional UAH 20 billion to finance the programme.

“One of the priority recovery projects this year is to complete the construction of water intakes and main water pipelines to supply water to the city of Mykolaiv. We have allocated UAH 8 billion for this purpose,” the Prime Minister noted.

Humanitarian demining is also in the focus of the Government. Thus, it is planned to increase the number of private operators and strengthen the capacity of state units, including the development of the Underwater Demining Centre.

In addition, the modernisation of checkpoints on the border with European countries and customs reform will continue.