Combined heat and power plant hit by Russia in Kyiv will take about two months to repair
The Darnytsia combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Kyiv sustained critical damage in Russia's 3 February attack, and it will take at least two months to repair its systems and equipment, provided there are no further devastating Russian strikes.
Source: Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv
Quote: "This CHP plant supplied heat to some of the apartment buildings in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts – more than 1,100 multi-storey residential buildings. The water was drained from the heating systems in these buildings on the morning of 3 February to prevent it from freezing."
Details: Klitschko said the city has rolled out additional heating support points in schools in neighbourhoods where homes have been left without heating. There are now five more points connected to mobile boiler houses in the Darnytskyi district where people can spend time, day or night, and four more in the Dniprovskyi district, in addition to those that had been previously available.
The State Emergency Service is also setting up 36 additional heating points in the Darnytskyi district and 27 in the Dniprovskyi district.
Background:
- On the night of 2-3 February, Russia carried out its heaviest strike on Ukraine's energy sector since the start of the year.
- The Russian attack caused severe damage to an infrastructure facility that supplied heat to more than 1,100 residential buildings in Kyiv's Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts, leaving them without heating.
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