The press service of the organization " Kyivenergo " said that the entire residential sector Kiev heated on Thursday.

" Kyivenergo " on the morning of October 30, connected to heating the entire housing stock of capital is 9, 426 thousands of homes, of which 7, 122 thousands of homes that are served by municipal housing offices, 1, 225 thousand departmental houses and 1, 097 thousands of homes served by private housing construction cooperatives and condominiums and is connected to the heating due to the filings, according to the report.

at the same time, the Agency UNIAN referring to " Kyivenergo " announced on Thursday that the number of inhabitants of Kiev, who are left without hot water for a day has almost doubled. According to the Agency, on Thursday morning, about 200 people blocked traffic on one of the streets of Kiev in protest against the lack of hot water, heating and outages. Residents also stated that since the beginning of the heating season and not included, no hot water, in addition, on October 19 were initiated outages.

The mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko has said that the upcoming heating season will be difficult, because the capital has only half the required volume of gas. Klitschko recommended Kiev to buy heaters and to insulate homes.

in mid-June, Gazprom translated Ukrainian state-owned company Naftogaz of prepayment due to chronic non-payments and a large debt of 5, 3 billion dollars. In the end, Ukraine received only transit volumes of gas intended for European customers.

The Ministry of energy of the Russian Federation informed that the Russian delegation will continue on Thursday in Brussels gas dialogues approximately 21. 00 GMT. The head of the European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso said that the agreement on tripartite negotiations on gas " within reach " as a result of proposals by the EC. According to the Russian negotiators, and regular meeting and the signing of the winter gas service will be held only if Ukraine and the EC agree on the last of the three documents - the bilateral Protocol, including financial guarantees Kiev to pay for gas from Russia.

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