The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, signed a law introducing

a compensation mechanism

for destroyed and damaged housing during the war.    

This is reported by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.

The law "determines the list of recipients of compensation for destroyed and damaged housing, its types, the mechanism of evaluation and decision-making regarding its provision, as well as the possibility of using it to obtain new housing," the message reads.

Compensation for destroyed and damaged property will be available to:

  • owners of apartments, other residential premises, private, garden and country houses;

  • customers of construction of private, garden and country houses (individuals);

  • natural persons who invested/financed the construction;

  • members of housing cooperatives who bought housing, but did not register the ownership right to it;

  • heirs of the above persons.

Condominiums, managers, condominiums also have the right to compensation.

This concerns the restoration of the common property of an apartment building.



How to get compensation:

  • it will be possible to submit an application for compensation through Diya, Tsnap, social protection bodies or a notary;

  • the decision on providing compensation will be made by local self-government bodies, which will create the appropriate Commissions for consideration of issues related to providing compensation.

    These commissions will consider the applications, conduct an inspection of the destroyed housing and determine the amount of compensation;

  • the amount of compensation will be calculated according to a special methodology currently being developed by the government.

In particular, persons whose homes were destroyed will receive a housing certificate, which will reflect the amount of compensation, and within 5 years will be able to use it to purchase a new home.

The government is currently developing a compensation algorithm for people whose homes were damaged.



Sources for funding compensation:

  • Fund for restoration of property and destroyed infrastructure;

  • funds from the state and local budgets;

  • funds of MFIs, other creditors and investors;

  • international technical, repayable or non-repayable financial assistance;

  • reparations or other charges from the Russian Federation.

We will remind you that at the end of February, the Verkhovna Rada adopted Law No. 7198 on

the creation of a state register of property damaged and destroyed by the war, as well as the procedure for receiving compensation.

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