Germany is allocating extra €60 million to Ukraine to aid Kyiv to improve its energy and heating supplies amid relentless Russian attacks, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha said on Friday.
"This assistance will help keep our people warm and protected by strengthening heating and heat supply systems – with a particular focus on frontline regions. We value Germany's steadfast solidarity," Sybiha wrote on social media platform on X. Sybiha explained that the funds will go to reinforcing the heat-supply system. It should be noted that last month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz revealed that since Russia’s full-fledged invasion in February 2022, Berlin has allocated more than 40 billion euro to support Ukraine militarily and 36 billion euro on civilian support. Merz also pledged to send more than 11 billion euro for military assistance to Kiev in 2026.
In a government question session earlier, Sybiha revealed that there was no power plant left in Ukraine that had not been affected by Russian attacks, with thousands of megawatts of generation capacity being taken offline. Sybiha explained that Russia was deploying full arsenal against Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, knocking out electricity and heating in cold winter temperatures. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared a state of emergency on January 15 in response to barrage of Russian attacks on the grid across country last week.
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