Estonia allocates nearly €514 000 in winterisation aid to Ukraine
Republic of Estonia - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
20.09.2024
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is allocating €513 660 to its strategic humanitarian aid partners Mondo and the Estonian Refugee Council. The aid is earmarked for Ukrainians to help them prepare for the winter at a time when Russia has destroyed around 80% of Ukraine's energy capacity.
"Since the beginning of this year, Russia has systematically destroyed Ukraine's energy infrastructure," Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Annely Kolk said. "The only objective of these targeted attacks is to cause human suffering and deaths." Kolk added that as Russia's attacks continue, Ukraine is heading for a very difficult winter without electricity, heating and water. "The war in Ukraine is raging on not only on the front, it is also in people's homes. If people do not have electricity in the dead of winter, they also do not have water or heating," she underlined.
"Supporting Ukrainian refugees during Russia's brutal war continues to be our priority. In many cases, war refugees have had to leave their homes repeatedly and the coming winter will be extremely difficult for them," Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said.
Mondo is using €235 921 to repair and insulate a shelter for internally displaced people in Kharkiv, to provide heating devices, solid fuel and generators to 17 shelters in the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts and to provide medicines, diapers and formula to a shelter to Ukrainian refugees in Georgia.
The €277 739 allocated to the Estonian Refugee Council will be used to provide financial aid to Ukraine's civilians and internally displaced people, to cover the winter maintenance costs of animal keepers and to cover the winter costs of Ukrainian refugees in Georgia.
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