Today's Russian attack on a bus in the Dnipro region is a crime, an exhibition crime, which once again demonstrates that it is Russia that is responsible for the escalation - address of the President
In Sumy Oblast, in Konotop, the Russians also attacked the railway infrastructure today. Railwaymen react, restore, try to fix everything very quickly and maintain communication between regions. There was a report about the Kyiv region: in fact, cogeneration is added every day in the region, this is very important, thank you. Thermal kits are issued for people, we will increase this program. About five thousand such sets are distributed every day in the Kyiv region.
I would like to thank Naftogaz for supporting this program. The extremely difficult situation in Kyiv with the heat continues. More than 500 multi-apartment buildings are without heating. Repair work is still underway. This definitely cannot be perceived as something normal in the city, when the number of houses without heat is far from the first week, every day, regardless of the situation, hundreds of houses.
There are shocks, there are no shocks - all the same, hundreds of houses in Kyiv are without heating. This means that working in the city is not enough. There was a report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on support and heating points in Kyiv. More people are now applying and additional points have been deployed in several areas. Hot meals are provided, all those who need such support will be helped. Line 112 works to capture all needs. There is a government contact center.
The city should at least work with the government structures faster, I really ask for this, so that people can receive timely help and real information. There were also reports on the situation in Kharkiv Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, and Chernivtsi Oblast. Separately, we discussed interaction with Romania with the Minister of Energy. There were reports on Donetsk region, it is important that the service responds to every need - thank you for that.
Odesa and the region - recovery after the bad weather continues, all the necessary forces are involved. There is an outage in the Kirovohrad region - work is underway there. There were also reports on Vinnytsia Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, as well as Poltava Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast and Oblast. Chernihiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast, our Zaporozhye Region and the region are subject to many shellings, and there must be a response to each of them, both military and diplomatic.
The first depends on our soldiers, but the second depends more on partners. There was a report of our negotiating team. There is already an agreement on a tripartite meeting at the appropriate level. There will be this meeting next week, as planned, on Wednesday and Thursday. In the Emirates, as last time. Just spoke with Rustem Umerov. I scheduled a meeting for tomorrow to agree on the framework of the conversation and prepare everything.
On Monday evening, the team will already be on the way to the negotiations. Many leaders, various countries with us in this process, support Ukraine, and we actually coordinate every day. In February, our foreign policy activity will be quite serious, and starting tomorrow - contacts and meetings.
We expect that the American side will be just as active, and in particular this applies to de-escalation measures - reduction of strikes, and a lot depends on the fact that the American side succeeds in making people trust both the process and the results, of course. Today's Russian attack on a bus in the Dnipro region is a crime, an exhibition crime, which once again demonstrates that it is Russia that is responsible for the escalation. Evil must stop.