MOSCOW, October 19. /TASS/. Ukraine and its capital are not ready for the coming winter, lawmaker Anna Skorokhod stated.

"Neither Kiev nor Ukraine is ready [for winter]," she told blogger Sergey Lyubarsky in an interview. According to the lawmaker, the national and city authorities merely drew up preparation plans that were never implemented.

Last winter, Ukraine experienced prolonged power and heating outages amid widespread damage to its energy infrastructure. The country’s authorities acknowledge that the coming winter could be even more challenging. Ukrainian lawmaker Alexey Kucherenko advised Ukrainians to stock up on water and firewood for the winter.