The heating season in Slovyansk will most likely not start, mayor Vadim Lyakh believes. Now there is no water and gas in the city, and electricity is supplied intermittently due to the proximity of high-voltage lines to the war zone.. The chances that the situation will change in the near future are small.

“We understand that if the temperature is below zero, the tank (with water) will freeze.. The cistern that we drive and leave for the night will freeze. You will heat your apartment - this is if there is electricity, but the sewage system freezes. Here you need to seriously think about how to proceed, how to survive. Precisely to survive, because there will actually be no heating season,” he stressed in a commentary to Novosti Donbass..

Despite the proximity of the city to the front line, the city hospital operates. First-necessary surgical operations are carried out, care is provided to the wounded. Some doctors left the city, but volunteers, including those from Kyiv, are helping.

Lyakh urged the townspeople to think about evacuation: “An attempt to attack, a massive offensive will still be. Great shelling will be a harbinger of this.

Accordingly, a greater number of victims during this period "

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The heating season 2022/2023 will be the most difficult since independence. On the one hand, military operations, the result of which is the massive destruction of infrastructure and housing stock. On the other hand, the difficult social and economic situation of the state. Read more about what Ukrainians should prepare for in Oleksandr Kitral’s article “Winter is getting closer: what difficulties Ukrainians will face and what to do”.