At the beginning of November, DTEK Renewables supplied over 42 tons of food products to form 6,460 food kits as humanitarian aid to Berezanka and Kobleve local communities. Humanitarian aid has been arranged within the "Saving Lives" project, which was created at the beginning of the war by DTEK and Metinvest holdings in coordination with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.

This is the fifth tranche of aid to Berezanka and Kobleve communities since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion in Ukraine. Currently, the communities start to distribute the food kits in villages.

"Our company does not stay aside from the problems of communities, despite the fact that the energy sector suffers from the consequences of enemy shelling. Unfortunately, many Ukrainians have experienced how it’s like to be left without electricity. And our company is doing everything possible and impossible to restore the stable work as soon as possible. However, no matter how difficult it may be, we respond to the requests of the communities and direct funds to the most important things - humanitarian aid like food, medicines and other necessary things to Mykolayiv region. We want to believe that the communities feel our support in these difficult times," said Oleg Solovei, director of DTEK Tyligulska WPP.

In order to form the food kits for internally displaced persons, the "Saving Lives" project delivered several tons of products, including stewed meat, pate, flour, salt and sugar, cereals and pasta, canned vegetables and cookies. Berezanka and Kobleve village communities form the food kits by themselves, and will control the distribution in terms defined by the local authorities.

"Several vans with humanitarian aid of a wide range of products arrived in Berezanka community the other day. We informed the residents and the internally displaced persons of the community about this, and also invited volunteers and willing residents of Berezanka to pack the food kits together with the village council team for the internally displaced persons," said Valery Khomitsky, Head of Berezanka village community. - The community is sure that DTEK Renewables is a reliable partner that always supports us whatever happens. We are sincerely grateful to the company for the necessary and repeated help in a difficult time."

"More than 3,000 internally displaced persons currently live in the villages of Kobleve community, many of them have lost their homes and jobs. Today, these people need special attention and care, and our community constantly helps them, so we gratefully accept aid from our partner organizations. This is not the first support from the "Saving Lives" project this year, DTEK Renewables has also delivered food kits and medicines to us before," says Volodymyr Panych, Head of the Kobleve village council.

In total, more than 282,000 Ukrainians across the country have already received aid within the "Saving Lives" humanitarian project. These are food and hygiene products, medicines and medical equipment for hospitals.