On September 9, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi held a meeting that should trigger a new wave of work in the construction industry. This isn’t about promises for the future — the government named a specific sum, broken down by line item, and it’s tens of billions of hryvnias going directly into concrete, rebar, and protective structures for the facilities without which no city can function.
Regional resilience plans aren’t just another paper title — they’re a document that determines whether substations, hospitals, and water utilities will withstand the next strike this autumn and winter. For local authorities, energy companies, and construction contractors, it’s a signal: the money is already there, and in the coming months the country will see a wave of tenders for protecting critical infrastructure.
How Much Money, and What Regional Resilience Plans Will Fund
Following the meeting of the Operational Coordination Centre for the implementation of regional resilience plans, Serhii Koretskyi cited the following figures:
- UAH 67.6 billion — the total funding already directed toward implementing regional resilience plans;
- UAH 43.7 billion of that — earmarked specifically for the protective engineering of critical infrastructure facilities, primarily energy sites;
- UAH 216.32 billion — the full cost of implementing the comprehensive resilience plans for regions and major cities previously approved by the National Security and Defence Council;
- oversight of implementation has been assigned to the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry for Communities’ and Territories’ Development, and the Recovery Agency.
Where Regions Are Falling Behind, and Why It Matters for Builders
Koretskyi acknowledged what contractors already know from experience: in a number of regions, the pace of building protective structures and connecting equipment is lagging behind the schedules set by National Security and Defence Council decisions. In some places there’s a shortage of approvals, in others a shortage of workers, and elsewhere a contractor is simply missing a deadline set back in spring.
That’s exactly why the relevant ministries have been instructed to tighten oversight of each individual facility, not just the overall regional statistics. For the construction industry, this means a simple thing: clients will now demand not a “plan completed to X percent” report, but a concrete acceptance certificate for each individual substation, shelter, or water utility.
Protective engineering for critical infrastructure isn’t an abstraction — it’s entirely physical: capital walls around transformer substations, concrete shelters for staff at energy facilities, reinforced ceilings above water utility pumping stations. That’s exactly what the UAH 43.7 billion will fund — and exactly why it interests construction companies used to working with public-sector clients, who understand how long the road can be from a Cabinet resolution to an actual contract.
What These Billions Change for the Industry Right Now
The money announced on September 9 isn’t an abstract line in a budget spreadsheet — it’s real tenders that will be published on Prozorro throughout the autumn. The UAH 43.7 billion for protective engineering of critical infrastructure means design work, earthworks, concreting, installation — exactly what keeps a construction company that works with public clients in business.
For communities, it means something else: by winter, substations and boiler houses will have real physical protection, not just a stamped piece of paper certifying readiness. And although the road from allocated billions to a completed shelter is always longer than one would like, this time it’s at least clearly mapped out and under control.
The country’s reconstruction is made up of exactly these kinds of decisions — not loud ones, but precise ones, where behind every figure in a Cabinet resolution stands a specific facility and a specific community that will have light this winter.
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SpecServis expertise on this topic: Electrical Power Systems
