Nearly 300 residential buildings in Kyiv still without heating
About 300 high-rise buildings in Kyiv remain without heating.
Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko
Details: "As of today, around 300 high-rise buildings in Kyiv remain without heating. (Of the 6,000 that had no heat supply after the Russian attack on the capital on 9 January)," Klitschko wrote.
Yesterday, 400 high-rise buildings in the capital were cut off from heat.
Utility workers continue repairing critical infrastructure damaged by the Russians around the clock, the mayor asserted.
Meanwhile, the situation with energy supply, on which the provision of utilities depends, remains very difficult. Currently, Kyiv is living under emergency power outage schedules. Hourly schedules are not in effect. Energy workers are dealing with the aftermath of the attack non-stop.
"The city has provided critical infrastructure with powerful generators and mobile boiler houses. Some large high-rise buildings, which have been without heat and light for six days, are being connected to generators and heating substations. More than 1,200 invincibility centres are operating in the capital," Klitschko said. [Invincibility centres are heated premises stocked with food and power banks to assist residents facing hardships due to power cuts – ed.]
"We are doing everything we can in these conditions. But the situation is very difficult, both in terms of energy and weather conditions," the mayor added.
Background:
- On January 14, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that a state of emergency would be declared in Ukraine's energy sector. A headquarters will also be set up in Kyiv to coordinate the situation on a permanent basis.
- Earlier, Klitschko noted that the situation in Kyiv with electricity and heat supply is very difficult, on a scale not seen in four years of war. About 400 high-rise buildings in Kyiv were left without heating.
- First Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said earlier that Kyiv was far less prepared for Russia's large-scale strikes on energy facilities than Kharkiv.
- Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said that the situation with power cuts in Ukraine's capital could improve from the evening of 15 January 2026 provided that there are no new Russian attacks.
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