More than 340 infrastructure facilities in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions need to be protected before winter – Energy Ministry

According to Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions resilience plans, more than 340 critical infrastructure facilities in these regions should be protected by winter and more than 150 MW of additional distributed generation should be commissioned, the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy reported on Thursday.

Specifically, 245 critical infrastructure facilities need to be protected in Dnipropetrovsk region, and 96 in Zaporizhia region.

"The government has already allocated funds for priority work: UAH 540.3 million for Dnipropetrovsk region and nearly UAH 2 billion for Zaporizhia region," the Ministry of Energy noted following a meeting of the Coordination Center for the Implementation of Comprehensive Regional Resilience Plans.

The government has already allocated UAH 12.85 billion to protect critical infrastructure facilities, particularly in frontline regions, the ministry added.