In Kharkiv for the first time in a year after the war, street lighting will start working - the mayor of Terekhov

The lanterns will work on the streets of the city so far in test mode, but later, as noted in the City Hall, the light will return throughout the city. In Kharkiv, they gather for the first time in a year to return street lighting, but they will do it gradually so as not to load the excessively communal system. Mayor Igor Terekhov said this in his Telegram channel. In the last year, the only source of light in the city in the dark was only headlights, and there was no opportunity to change it.

In the evening of Tuesday, March 7, the lanterns will be launched in Kharkiv, and in the coming days the scale of streets in the city will increase. "There have been many road accidents during this time that people were injured. I know, because I have repeatedly heard that many Kharkiv residents are difficult to move through the city when darkened. I recently conducted successful negotiations with those responsible for security.

Central highways and other, most loaded highways, " - said in the message Igor Terekhov. The test mode will be only one and a half hours - from 18:00 to 19:30, just at rush. Later, as the head of the city noted, the geography of the online will expand and the lanterns will increase significantly. We will remind, on March 6 in DTEK threatened some Ukrainians with shutdown of light. At present, Ukrainians, according to Sergei Kovalenko, have owed UAH 2.