Shmyhal promised to provide all Ukrainian educational institutions with generators by the end of the heating season

Denys Shmyhal promised to provide all educational institutions with generators by the end of the heating year. Photo: press service of the Cabinet of Ministers

The critical situation in Ukraine's energy system does not allow schools and kindergartens to be supplied with electricity during blackouts. The government plans to equip all educational institutions with generators by the end of winter.

This was stated by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal during the «hour of questions» to the government in the Verkhovna Rada.

According to him, educational institutions do not yet belong to the objects of critical infrastructure.

«Critical includes the infrastructure for the production and supply of weapons, logistics. If there is enough electricity, then, of course, other objects of the social sphere can belong to those that are not turned off. And when the resource is limited, priority is given to those objects that ensure the survival of the state,» he said.

The Prime Minister reported that currently more than 80% of schools, kindergartens and universities have generators.

«We are working both at the expense of the state and together with our partners so that during this heating season, one hundred percent of all educational institutions will be on autonomous power supply in the event of a power outage, so as not to interrupt the educational process,» the prime minister said.

At the same time, he informed that the hospitals are equipped with generators at 100%, which ensures uninterrupted work during blackouts.

it was previously reported that Pivdennoukrainsk received four diesel generator sets from international partners, which they plan to use in kindergartens during power outages.