Restoration of Chernihiv destroyed by invaders will take at least four years, Mayor Vladislav Atroshenko believes. Now the city authorities are systematizing data on the destruction, the process will take at least two weeks..

“The restoration of Chernihiv will take four years, if you work quickly and have full funds. Construction - three years, a year - projects,"

Atroshenko admits that the terms he voiced are optimal, while the real ones may turn out to be large, for example, for technical reasons - in Ukraine there are currently no technologies for dismantling damaged "

The mayor of the city also emphasized the importance of proper documentation of damage to civilian infrastructure - hospitals, schools, residential buildings.. To do this, he proposes to involve internationally recognized experts. What will allow to seek compensation from Russia in international courts.

According to the mayor, the scale of destruction can also be estimated by the number of boxes of shells found in the suburbs cleared of invaders..

“These are thousands of shells of 152 caliber, thousands of mines of 120 caliber. This led to significant destruction of housing. The suburbs suffered the most across the board. In Chernihiv, hundreds of high-rise buildings are seriously damaged,” he added..

About 150 high-rise buildings received serious damage, communications were damaged, wires on the surface were destroyed by almost 70-100%.

“There are no people to count it all, a very large amount of work. The damage is huge - tens of billions of hryvnia. Just to rebuild the CHPP, you need about 200-300 million euros,” Atroshenko explains..

Every house near which a large aerial bomb fell was subjected to a devastating effect at the level of a 10-magnitude earthquake. So, it is necessary to study the bearing capacity of all concrete structures, etc.. You will also have to assess the condition of underground utilities..