Totally destroyed or partially damaged - more than 340,000 such Ukrainian homes, based on the number of applications in "Dia" alone.

The total area of ​​damaged housing exceeded 23 million square meters.

While the Russians are trying to destroy Ukrainian homes, Ukrainians are doing their best to patch holes in the walls of their homes.

The state promises to start paying compensation in May, while Ukrainians are rebuilding their homes with their own funds and thanks to international donors, TSN reports.

One of the houses in Irpen, at first glance, seems to have just been built - a new facade, the film has not even been removed from the windows in some places.

Only the burned-out car in the yard reminds of all the horror that happened here a year ago.

"The building itself was on fire.

7 floors were completely burnt, two risers were badly damaged", - residents say.

The residents of the building first undertook its restoration themselves.

"We did the restoration of the roof, 7th floor and emergency structures at our own expense.

It cost us approximately one million six hundred thousand hryvnias.

It was approximately 40,000 per apartment," says Olena Salamatova, head of the condominium. 

Already after that, the house became one of the participants of the "Restore the House" program.

It was launched by the Energy Efficiency Fund together with the European Union and the International Financial Corporation.

The EU allocated 25 million euros.

They calculated that this should be enough to restore about half a thousand high-rise buildings.

In this high-rise building, more than half of the windows and doors were replaced with grant funds, the interior decoration and communications were restored.

The representatives of the EU, who came to Irpen with an inspection, are shown in photos what the Russians have turned this house into.

They can compare how it became after the reconstruction.

The Europeans are impressed with the result and the speed.

The program started at the end of November, and in two months all external works were completed here.

This is still a pilot, initially only 4 oblasts could become participants in this project - Kyiv, Sumy, Zhytomyr and Chernivtsi.

"The limit on funds for one object was 6 million hryvnias.

Now we have expanded the program to 2 more regions.

These are Mykolaiv Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

The maximum amount of funds allocated for one house is 7.2 million hryvnias.

In other words, we are expanding", - assures the director of the fund Yehor Fareniuk. 

By the beginning of summer, they plan to launch the main stage of the program and cover the entire territory of Ukraine, with the exception of the temporarily occupied territories.

The main condition for the participants is that it must be a condominium, and the house itself must be without significant damage.

"The idea was to ensure the possibility of the fastest possible restoration of condominium buildings.

So that people can come back.

Regarding the expansion of the program, it is necessary to talk with partners and the government", - say the international organizers.

The owners of only 7 out of 42 apartments returned to this building.

There are still damaged elevators, 14 unrestored apartments and unrepaired entrances.

This is not covered by the "Restore the Home" program, so residents have to fix everything themselves.

"Now we will return home, do our repairs.

I really want to rebuild my apartment and go home," residents say. 

The neighboring house, which also received money from the EU, is already almost 100 percent occupied.

Residents were lucky that a fire did not break out as a result of the shelling, and the damage was mainly on the outside.

In more than a year since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers have shelled Ukraine more than 40,000 times.

As a result, more than 152,000 residential buildings were destroyed.

The largest number of applications in "Dia" came from the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions.

The restoration program of Ukraine is planned to be implemented at the expense of confiscated Russian assets, budget funds, international partners and donors collected on the UNITED24 platform.

They will start in the same way with high-rise buildings that were not badly damaged, so that as many people as possible can return home as soon as possible. 

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