Kyiv City Council will allocate 1 billion hryvnias for alternative crossings over the Dnipro. Their locations will be determined by the military command

The mayor said that Kyiv has found funds to implement this project; now they must be allocated and transferred to state bodies that will carry out the construction.

At a meeting on 5 November, the Kyiv City Council plans to allocate 1 billion hryvnias for a project to build combined water crossings over the Dnipro River and the access roads to them. The city mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reported this on Telegram.

The state put forward the corresponding initiative, and the government has already adopted a resolution. The military command will determine the locations of the crossings, and they will be approved, among others, by the Kyiv City Military Administration.

“The government recommended that Kyiv allocate 1 billion hryvnias from the city budget. And we found those funds. Therefore we must make a decision to allocate them and transfer them to state bodies to implement the project,” he said.

The city council also plans to consider increasing the capital’s material reserve. They want to allocate another 350 million hryvnias for additional purchases of 3,5 million liters of diesel fuel, needed to prevent and respond to emergencies.

Another 1 billion hryvnias will be allocated to support the Security and Defense Forces. Thus the city will direct 6 billion hryvnias this year to support the army.

“Kyiv is operating under extremely difficult conditions. The city authorities are doing everything for the capital’s life support. We are working through various scenario options because the enemy is intensifying attacks on the energy sector and heat generation, and on water supply systems. Some today talk about some ‘cabinets’ for Kyiv. I will note that since spring we have had an energy life-support headquarters for the capital, to which the city has brought in experts, energy specialists, practitioners, and scientists. The headquarters has developed possible measures for different scenarios. We cannot publicly speak about everything,” he said.

Context

After Russian strikes on the bridges across the Dnipro in Kyiv, Minister of Infrastructure Mykola Kalashnyk said that Kyiv intends to build alternative crossings. Klitschko noted that Kyiv is ready for such a decision, but no pontoon crossing will be able to fully replace the bridges.

According to Kalashnyk, they generally want to construct 21 alternative crossing(s). He promised to have the first crossings operational by the end of the year.