Kharkiv accumulated 35 billion hryvnias in electricity and gas debt, with a budget of 20 billion.
The city owes almost twice its annual budget for electricity and gas, stated Oleh Popenko, head of the Union of Utilities Consumers. Meanwhile, Kharkiv continues to offer free public transportation, despite the growing debt burden. According to Popenko, this decision was justified in 2022, but after the situation stabilized at the end of 2023, it had to be reconsidered. "This decision should have been canceled and the city should not have been pushed into these catastrophic debts," he emphasized. Caravans: |.