Work underway in Kyiv to restore heating to 102 residential buildings

Emergency repair work is ongoing in Kyiv to restore heating to 102 residential buildings.

Source: Oleksii Kuleba, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery and Minister for Communities and Territorial Development

Quote from Kuleba: "Forty-six apartment buildings were left without heating after a large-scale Russian attack on 9 January. Another 56 buildings are affected by local accidents caused by severe frost and worn internal systems. The situation is dynamic: repair teams are eliminating failures in real time."

Details: The Holosiivskyi district currently has the largest number of buildings without heating. Repairs are also ongoing in the Shevchenkivskyi district. Heating is being gradually restored, with specialised personnel supervising the process to prevent repeat failures.

Quote from Kuleba: "At present, 16 repair teams are working around the clock. We are deploying more resources. An additional 20 teams are being brought in from other regions, and [Ukrainian state-run railway operator] Ukrzaliznytsia is willing to provide another 30. Overall, up to 50 emergency teams – around 200 specialised personnel – will be working in Kyiv.

To support people, we are deploying an additional invincibility centre run by the State Emergency Service. In buildings where heating has not yet been restored, the electricity supply will not be cut. Our task is to complete the work as quickly as possible. Today, heating should return to about half of the buildings, with the rest to follow shortly." [An invincibility centre is a heated premises stocked with food and power banks to assist residents facing hardships due to power cuts – ed.]

Background:

• Earlier, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that around 50 residential buildings in Kyiv remain without heating out of the 6,000 that had no heat supply after the large-scale attack on energy infrastructure in the capital on 9 January.
• Explosions were heard in Kyiv on the evening of 8 January. Russia attacked the city with drones.
• As of the morning of 9 January, more than 500,000 consumers in the city of Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast were left without electricity after the Russian attack.
• Half of Kyiv's apartment buildings – almost 6,000 – were without heating due to damage to the capital's critical infrastructure caused by the large-scale Russian attack.

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