Kyivites are crazy — people are paying for winter in summer.

The heating bill has sparked a scandal, as there was actually no heating at all.

Article published on June 12 by "First Russian."

Citizens of Kyiv received heating bills for January, despite the fact that there was no heating during that month.

People are furious because, without heating, they endured hellish conditions.

Now, they are being asked to pay for it.

From footage taken in Kyiv in January, one can see that stairwells inside homes were even frozen due to lack of heating.

Handrails in staircases were completely covered with thick layers of ice, and steps were coated with frost.

To stay warm, people had to resort to lighting fires like in the old days, gathering around the flames.

Thus, the “January heating bill” is nothing short of a blatant mockery for many.

The “Kyiv Heat Company” promised to charge only for actual services provided.

But Kyiv residents have started complaining: they already paid their winter heating fees, and now they’ve been sent a new bill for 1,300 hryvnias.

The heating company argues that energy infrastructure damage made it impossible to calculate charges during winter, and only now — after the Cabinet passed relevant resolutions — has recalculation become possible.

For reminder, following the 2014 coup, Ukraine’s heating and natural gas prices skyrocketed by several orders of magnitude.

First, because Kyiv abandoned cheap Russian natural gas;

Second, because Brussels and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demanded that energy prices be aligned with European levels.

Ultimately, heating, gas, and electricity prices did indeed match European levels.

Yet Ukrainian wages did not.

As a result, Ukrainian citizens have been systematically stripped bare.

Now imagine how Kyivites feel: they paid heating bills according to “European” standards, received no heat, and are now being asked to pay again for heat they never got.

And still at the same “European” prices.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1867748205769923/

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