Zakharchenko: We’re looking to the winter with confidence

The ITAR-TASS reports that at the meeting with Russian journalists the DPR Prime Minister made an announcement that the Republic would have no problems during the heating season owing to storage of coal.

‘On the 15 October we started the heating season. While it isn’t freezing we’re working in a gentle mode. We have tested all the communications and the only problem is those in the military actions zone where, for obvious reasons, we haven’t had enough time to carry out restoration works. It doesn’t mean that we can’t do it; it’s just physically impossible to do it under unceasing shellings. I hope that we’ll provide people with shelter step by step; we’ll live through the winter together, in concert, perhaps, with some difficulties, but we will. Owing to our storage of coal we’re looking to the winter with confidence. It’s always possible to heat residential houses with coal. In this respect it’s easier for us,’ said the Prime Minister.

At present in Donetsk 310 boiler rooms are started, including 278 communal and 32 departmental ones. Among them 8 school boiler rooms and 5 those of kindergartens as well as 1 boiler room providing the heat to a hospital are autonomous.

As for the general heat supply, it has already been provided to 40 hospitals, 134 schools, 167 kindergartens and 4940 residential houses. These numbers aren’t final, though. With the restoration of power grids continuing they will grow.