KYIV, Sept 2 – The State Road Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) is preparing for the winter with the diversification of technical salt supplies.

"We started preparing for winter in advance. Today, there are leftover de-icing materials from last year – 25,000 tons of technical salt and 159,000 tons of friction materials. By the beginning of the worsening weather conditions, we will prepare 283,000 tons of friction materials and 89,000 tons of technical salt (50% of the standard requirement for the entire autumn-winter period). We are preparing, we have the equipment, by the way, this season we plan to attract 4,885 units of equipment and mechanisms," Andriy Ivko, First Deputy Head of Ukravtodor, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.