Marina Honda, deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, told Glavcom that the city is preparing lists and locations to temporarily relocate vulnerable residents if severe blackouts or heating failures occur this winter. Priority groups include single pensioners, people with disabilities and families with children with disabilities; relocations will go to municipal geriatric homes, partner private facilities, social and rehabilitation centres, medical institutions or specially equipped premises.
Honda said the social department oversees 25 institutions, 10 of them stationary care facilities that house about 2,500 people. The largest facilities already have generators, autonomous boilers and water reservoirs. Two rehabilitation centres have been adapted as resilience hubs, each able to accept about 200 people at once. City officials emphasised they will not force anyone to move, instead checking for relatives or voluntary willingness to relocate.
Officials are also preparing supplies: beds, blankets, pillows and food rations, and plan to issue “warm kits” for those who decline temporary relocation (an estimated need of about 31,000 kits). Kyiv will resume its social patrols to help people without stable housing or in difficult circumstances during the cold season.