Authorities reported in which settlements of Donetsk region will not have heat in winter

Eight cities in Donetsk Region will probably not be heated in winter. This was announced at a briefing by the deputy director of the Donetsk Regional Administration of Housing and Communal Services, Larisa Guseva.

She specified that there will be no heating in Bakhmut, Seversk, Toretsk, Chasoviy Yar, Ugledar, Avdiivka, Sviatogorsk and Liman.

Guseva stressed that in and around these cities will not be able to give heat because the infrastructure has been destroyed.

We will not be able to restore, because gas pipelines are broken there. All other cities will have centralised heating either through gas boilers or modular coal-fired boilers, but it will be there," Guseva said.

She reassured that people who will have to live in unheated towns in winter will be provided with bulerian cookers and burzhuyki. The authorities will also provide local residents with firewood and pellets.

There is a certain programme, there is assistance from international organisations, it will be done on a case-by-case basis, we are already working on it," the official said.

Speaking about the damage, Guseva said that 110 heat supply facilities were destroyed as a result of the hostilities in the region.