In Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, an announcement appeared: in case of prolonged heating shutdowns, elderly people living alone, people with disabilities, and families with disabled children will be temporarily relocated. Maryna Honda, First Deputy Mayor of Kyiv City State Administration, confirmed to UNN that this is not a local initiative but a new city-wide policy — the city is compiling lists of low-mobility residents across the entire capital.
Why now
The decision was made after last winter's experience, when attacks on the energy system left entire districts without heating for days, and sometimes weeks. Back then, the question "where to place a person who cannot get out of bed if it's +8 degrees in the apartment" was solved ad hoc — some through neighbors, some through volunteers, some not at all. Lists are an attempt to move this from improvisation mode to planned preparation.
What's still not ready
The problem is that half of the equation is still missing. Lists of people are being compiled, but the inventory of actual places where they will be relocated — dormitories, schools with autonomous heating, modular towns — is still being determined. In other words, the answer to "who" already exists, but the answer to "where" does not yet.
This is the difference between a plan and an intention to plan. If a long blackout occurs in winter and relocation sites are not finalized and verified for autonomous power supply and heating, the list will simply become an inventory of those who were not rescued in time.
Infrastructure context
Meanwhile, Kyiv reports financial and technical preparations: over 10 billion hryvnias accumulated for a resilience plan, energy facility restoration is 65% complete, equipment has been contracted to replace heating plants with capacity exceeding 1000 MW. These are large figures, but they do not answer the question of how many beds in reserve housing will actually be ready before the first serious strike on the networks.
A list without an address where to take a person is only half a solution.
The winter question is simple: will the city manage to complete the second half — specific buildings with heating and staff — before the list becomes needed in practice, not just on paper?
