By KYIV. Jan 6 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE), as part of a $100 million humanitarian support program, donated 2,500 household generators to Ukraine to help power the critical and social infrastructure (schools, kindergartens, medical institutions, and heating points), the State Property Fund of Ukraine reported.
In a release on Friday, the Fund clarified that Ukraine received a second batch of 1,300 generators in addition to the first batch of 1,200 that arrived at the end of December.
If the first generators were sent to the regions most affected by Russian aggression – Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia and Kyiv, then the second batch will go to facilities in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Donetsk regions and Kyiv city, the Fund noted.
Earlier, the local news agency WAM indicated that these were household generators with a capacity of 3.5 to 8 kilowatts.
MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak on Friday said on Telegram that in 2022, 669,400 generators were imported to Ukraine, of which 643,800 by enterprises, and 25,500 by citizens. Most generators were imported in December – 309,400 compared to 160,900 in November and almost 72,000 in October.
