"Over the next three years, it is necessary to restore the equipment of existing thermal and hydropower generation facilities to the available capacity, and this is an additional more than 3.5 GW," TASS quoted him as saying.

According to the minister, at the moment it has been possible to restore gas supply to more than 200 thousand and electricity supply to more than 50 thousand consumers.

Earlier, the acting head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that more than 2025.1 thousand apartment buildings will be restored in Severodonetsk, Kremennaya, Rubezhne and Lisichansk until 6.