Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has warned governors about personal responsibility for the untimely start of the heating season. He said this on Tuesday at a meeting with the heads of Kyiv, Zakarpattia and Rivne oblasts – Vira Ulianchenko, Oleh Havashi and Viktor Matchuk, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported. \n \nYanukovych instructed that the heating season be started urgently. Yanukovych warned the heads of the oblasts about personal responsibility for the untimely supply of heat to schools, hospitals, residential buildings and institutions. "Preparation for the heating season must be completed urgently," the prime minister emphasized. "In populated areas where the air temperature has entered a sustained decline, heat supply must be started immediately. The head of the oblast will bear responsibility for cold in people's apartments," the head of government noted. \n \nThe prime minister also discussed problems in the socio-economic sphere and the draft budget for 2007 with the heads of the oblast state administrations. \n \nBy the end of the week, the prime minister plans to hold meetings with the heads of 6 more regions of Ukraine. \n \nRecall that Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Architecture, Construction and Housing and Communal Services Volodymyr Rybak stated that in the gas issue "there is complete clarity." \n \nAs reported earlier, Ukrainian cities lack UAH 2.5 billion for the purchase of gas for housing and communal services enterprises for the start of the heating season. \n \nDeputy Prime Minister, Minister of Architecture, Construction and Housing and Communal Services Volodymyr Rybak assured that the government controls the situation in the housing and communal sphere, and added that the task of providing communal enterprises with gas lies with the governors. \n\nMeanwhile, according to media reports, the heating season has still not begun in a number of cities. \n\nAccording to a report by "Volynska Pravda," citing the words of the director of the enterprise "Lutskteplo" Anatolii Luchko, in Lutsk, thermal energy was supplied on October 16 not only to kindergartens, schools and hospitals, but also to some residential areas. In apartments on Prospekt Voli and in the area of Kyivskyi Maidan, at least it was warm that night. And even though heat has not yet appeared everywhere, Lutsk heat power engineers assured that within two to three days it will be supplied to all microdistricts without exception. \n