KYIV, Nov 1 – The amount of funds that have already been accumulated in the Ukraine Energy Support Fund created by the Energy Community is EUR 25.5 million, EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson has said.

Simson said at a joint press conference with Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Haluschenko in Kyiv on Tuesday that they already have EUR 25.5 million in the fund, which they will allocate to meet Ukraine's needs for the restoration of energy facilities. She said that she saw the scale of the destruction with her own eyes and will do everything to scale up assistance to Ukraine, including from private companies, she said.