Volodymyr Zelenskyy supported the decision of the Verkhovna Rada on a moratorium on raising tariffs for utilities and on August 18 signed law No. 2479-IX, which finally approved the current prices for the duration of the hostilities and six months after their completion. This is stated in the message on the website of the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine.

According to the head of the department, Alexei Chernyshev, the president supported the relevant bill and believes that maintaining today's prices for utilities will allow the country to get through the difficult winter steadily..

“The heating season will be without an increase in tariffs for heat and hot water for consumers. The President of Ukraine signed important laws that will ensure both price stability in the heat supply sector and the financial viability of heat communal enterprises during the 2022/23 heating season. After all, this heating season will be the most difficult for the period of independence of Ukraine. I am sure that all of us together will adequately cope with all the challenges and ensure a stable passage of the heating season,” Chernyshev said..

He noted that, according to Law No.

2479-IX, a deferral of debt repayment under debt restructuring agreements for TKE and VKG enterprises, whose production facilities are located in the temporarily occupied territory, or whose production facilities were destroyed or damaged as a result of shelling, or are located in the combat zone.

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Earlier, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal told how Ukraine is preparing for a difficult winter.

Heating season 2022/2023 will be the most difficult for Ukraine since independence. Read more about this in the article by Oleksandr Kitral “Winter is coming: what difficulties await Ukrainians and what to do”.