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In the Association of Cities of Ukraine (AMU) explained to Koretskyi what further blocking of funds could lead to.
The Association of Ukrainian Cities appealed to Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi for the government to immediately unblock the money necessary, among other things, for winter preparations. AMU head’s adviser Oksana Prodon had already stated that freezing funds for communities by the cabinet violates the law.
“With funds available on the municipalities’ accounts, provided they meet the criteria of PCM No. 590, as of September 9, 2026 year, the communities have been blocked from buying fuel for vehicles that go out to provide medical help or clear debris after shelling. Work and equipment payments for medical, educational, and social institutions, preparation for the heating season, and implementation of resilience plans have been stopped. There is no opportunity to prepare Emergency Points, repair infrastructure damaged by shelling, or energy facilities,” AMU noted.
In its appeal to Koretskyi, the Association of Cities emphasized that blocking settlements’ payments for the above services and beyond leads to consequences that “the aggressor could not have achieved with shelling since the start of the full-scale invasion.”
AMU stressed to the prime minister that if the cabinet does not immediately unblock payments to communities, it will destroy the conditions for operation of state and international institutions, educational, medical, and social facilities in Ukraine.
AMU’s board called on Koretskyi to stop accruing penalties on communities for unpaid loans and late settlements due to the absence of an official decision on blocking payments. The prime minister was also urged to initiate holding accountable those government officials whose actions have halted the work of all communal services in the country.
Earlier, the head of the Verkhovna Rada’s budget committee, Roksolana Pidlasa, said the Ministry of Finance had moved 39 billion hryvnias of capital expenditures to December. These are precisely the funds intended for defending energy systems before the heating season, constructing shelters in schools and hospitals, reconstructing medical facilities, and social housing. According to Pidlasa, the government continues to fund social expenditures, including salaries of budgetary sector workers. However, the budget situation remains tense. Postponing capital expenditures to the end of the year essentially means they will not be funded this year.
In response, Oksana Prodanska emphasized that the state budget is the law by which the government, all ministries, and the Ministry of Finance operate. Therefore, the AMU head’s adviser added, without a Verkhovna Rada decision in a parliamentarian-presidential republic, the government cannot afford: to want to, want not, to pay or not to pay.
Moreover, the problem of debts directly to heat suppliers has been ongoing for several years. At the end of 2025, AMU reported that the state had not reimbursed heat supply enterprises for the tariff difference amounting to more than 64 billion hryvnias, and the heat enterprises’ accounts in 14 communities were blocked.
Journalist Volodymyr Obukh looked at what energy and utility workers managed to do in the summer and what they definitely will not have time to do before the frosts in ZN.UA article “What the energy sector managed to do in the summer and what they will definitely not have time to do before the frosts.”
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