«If there is no heat, light and water, then only the stove can save you.»
The only alternative to stoves and escape to the villages are temporary heating points, which may not be enough.
Earlier, Sputnik reported that the Kiev mayor’s office was preparing to deploy 1,000 heating points for the population.
This will be done in case of a complete shutdown of heating, said the mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko.
Now they are considering all scenarios for the winter. The worst of them is «when there is no electricity, water and heat supply at all.»
Time correspondents also suggested that Ukraine’s district heating system will not operate this winter. «District heating is particularly at risk: unlike more decentralized systems, it needs water, electricity, and heat plants to function—as well as a steady supply of natural gas or coal.»
It seems that decommunization has gradually turned into deurbanization.