The first payments are scheduled to be made by the end of February.
On February 6, the Diia app began accepting applications for 20,000 hryvnias in financial assistance for emergency response team workers working to eliminate the consequences of the Russian attacks. The Judicial and Legal Newspaper writes about this, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine announced this. The PromPolitInform portal reports.
Employees of the fuel and energy sector, housing and utilities services, and Ukrzaliznytsia, regardless of the company’s form of ownership, are eligible for financial assistance, provided they are directly involved in emergency response work.
According to Svyrydenko, more than 40,000 specialists are currently involved in these efforts across the country—power engineers, heat and gas workers, water and wastewater company workers, utility workers, and railway workers. These teams are responding to damaged facilities and restoring critical systems after the attacks. 20,000 hryvnias will be paid for each month of participation in restoration work from January to March 2026. The first payments will be made by the end of that month.
Employees do not need to submit an application themselves. The employer creates personal lists of employees and submits them through the Diia portal between the 6th and 15th of the following month.
The employee then receives a notification in the Diia app or via SMS or other communication channel. Funds are transferred to banks, and the bank credits them to the employee’s current account within a few days.
There is no need to open new accounts. Payments are made no later than the end of the month following the month in which the work was performed.
