Kharkiv owes UAH 35 billion for electricity and gas with a city budget of UAH 20 billion, - the head of the Union of Service Consumers Oleg Popenko.
According to him, the municipality continues to provide free public transportation, despite the accumulated debts.
Popenko believes that free travel was a justified decision in 2022 to keep residents in the city. However, after the situation stabilized at the end of 2023, it had to be canceled in order to prevent further growth of the debt.
"It was necessary to cancel this decision and not bring the city into these catastrophic debts," he believes.