Ukraine Approves Monthly Bonuses for Repair Workers as Russian Strikes Pound Infrastructure

The Ukrainian government has approved additional monthly payments of 30,000 UAH ($720) for specialists repairing energy, housing, utilities, and railway infrastructure following Russian strikes.

Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said that the supplemental pay will be provided each month starting in November and continuing through the end of the heating season.

The bonus applies to power grid specialists, thermal energy and gas employees, water supply and sanitation workers, municipal utility staff, and railway workers engaged in restoration work.

According to Koretskyi, Russia launches 300–400 drones a day at energy, utility, and rail infrastructure, along with regular missile strikes, including ballistic ones. More than 2,000 hits have been recorded since August.

The strikes repeatedly hit power lines and exposed parts of the transmission grid, Koretskyi said.

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“They have to be restored again and again, in volumes many times larger than in all previous years. It is thanks to these people that the energy system, housing and communal services, and railways work and remain resilient. This is the least the state can do for these specialists now,” Koretskyi said.

Ukraine braces for what could be Russia's most ambitious winter campaign yet against its power, heating, and water systems.

A document presented to European partners as an intercepted Russian plan outlines the use of up to 1,000 missiles, drones, and guided bombs against substations, power plants, and switchyards linking Ukraine's three operating nuclear plants to the grid.

It names Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa as priority targets and estimates that the campaign could eliminate nearly 15 gigawatts of generating capacity.

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