As of 1 August 2024, about 34% of the damaged infrastructure remained in the Kyiv region. Accordingly, more than 66% have already been restored. This information was provided by the Department of Regional Development of the Kyiv Regional State Administration and the Regional State Administration at the request of Komersant ukrayinskyi
“As a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, 29,969 infrastructure facilities were damaged, of which 19,850 have been restored, which is 66.24%,”
– said Serhiy Marishchenko, Director of the Department of Regional Development.
At the same time, many communities are still keeping records of damaged facilities. The Bucha City Council, specifically at the request of
“As of 01.08.2024, the community had 3736 damaged objects, of which 3294 were housing, 442 non-residential objects, including 118 public and social infrastructure facilities (schools, kindergartens, administrative buildings, sports facilities, etc.) At the same time, 962 facilities sustained significant damage (II and III damage categories). Of these, 164 are listed as beyond repair,”
– said Dmitry Cheichuk, Deputy Mayor of Bucha City Council.
During the full-scale invasion, the city council managed to fully or partially restore 2,345 objects. Of these, 223 are multi-storey residential buildings, 1762 are residential buildings, 96 are social infrastructure facilities, 116 are critical infrastructure facilities and 148 are other facilities.
What are the difficulties encountered in restoring facilities?
Most often, companies involved in the restoration of damaged and destroyed facilities faced problems with delays in financing construction work by the customer and attracting skilled labour through mobilisation. There are also shortcomings in the design and estimate documentation that need to be corrected, the Bucha City Council noted.
Almost 1,500 private houses completely destroyed in Irpin
It is known that Irpin is among the most affected settlements in the Kyiv region.
“We would like to inform you that 510 multi-storey buildings and 646 private houses have been restored with the help of charitable organisations and funds allocated under government programmes,”
– informed Tatiana Yaroshenko.
War and reconstruction
As of May 2023, the KSE Institute has counted $54 billion in losses to Ukraine’s housing stock. Of this, $46 billion was caused by the destruction of apartment buildings. In total, there are more than 18,000 such buildings. In addition, 144,000 private houses were damaged. The total area of damaged or destroyed facilities is 87 million square metres. This is 8.6% of the total housing stock of Ukraine. In total , Russia has caused $153 billion in damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure.
As reported by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, as of April 2023, 2.5 million Ukrainians had their homes damaged by the Russian invasion. There are 170,000 registered people whose homes have been completely destroyed. 200,000 Ukrainians are currently living in places of compact settlement, and 5,000 of them are living in modular towns.
The state programme of compensation for destroyed housing applies to owners of housing destroyed as a result of hostilities after 24 February 2022. The state compensates these people for the purchase of new or repair of old housing. However, the government has recently set a maximum area of destroyed housing for which compensation will be paid.
Author: Anastasia Fedor