Russians have struck Kyiv's two combined heat and power plants almost 50 times this year, mayor says

Russian forces struck Kyiv's two combined heat and power plants, CHPP-5 and CHPP-6, with 12 missiles and drones in 2022, seven in 2023, none in 2024, 19 in 2025 and almost 50 so far this year.

Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko during an address to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament)

Details: "Throughout this time, experts have been working, repairing equipment and preparing the facilities for winter every year. And Kyiv has stood firm," Klitschko noted.

He said the city authorities are doing everything in their power to keep the capital running, despite "the spiteful slaps that the central government constantly tries to deliver".

"Kyiv is functioning under difficult wartime conditions, under constant devastating attacks by the enemy. These attacks target infrastructure, the energy sector, industry, businesses and every resident of the capital," the mayor stressed.

He noted that preparations this year have taken place under Russian attacks and amid "the show the authorities put on around the Resilience Plan".

Klitschko said Kyiv has prepared almost 700 generators of various capacities for heat and water supply facilities, as well as 70 mobile boiler houses. Three diesel power stations have been built, along with a backup water intake facility.

Kyivvodokanal, the capital's water utility, currently has 103 generators. The utility is also expecting high-capacity generator systems for water supply that are being manufactured for Kyiv abroad.

More than 6,000 pieces of equipment, including generators, inverters and batteries, have been purchased for residential buildings under municipal energy resilience programmes.

According to Klitschko, all educational institutions have generators of various capacities, including 285 high-capacity units. The capital's hospitals are equipped with backup power sources and currently have 480 generators.

He also noted that 15 hospitals have their own wells, with another six under construction. Eleven medical facilities have autonomous heating supplied by their own boiler houses. By the end of the year, 21 hospitals are expected to have such heating, Klitschko said.

Quote: "Kyiv is working, rebuilding and repairing, and keeping the city running. This is happening amid staff shortages at municipal utilities and suspended payments, while the enemy is tearing the city apart every day and every night."

Background:

• Russian forces carried out a combined attack on Ukraine. Several air-raid warnings were issued in the city of Kyiv and some oblasts on the night of 13-14 October. The capital is experiencing power cuts.
• Following problems caused by Russian attacks, water pressure has been reduced in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi, Solomianskyi and Pecherskyi districts.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the city of Kyiv is the least-prepared region in Ukraine according to the country's resilience plans. He has therefore begun consultations on "security and management steps".
• On 9 October, Zelenskyy accused Kyiv's city authorities of failing to take the necessary steps to implement the resilience plans.
• Since the beginning of autumn, Russian attacks have repeatedly brought the capital's transport infrastructure to a virtual standstill. In particular, the Kyiv metro stopped operating on 8 October due to a drop in voltage.
• Klitschko has stressed that amid intensified Russian attacks, the situation in Kyiv is now a matter of survival. Residents who have friends or relatives outside Kyiv have been advised to consider temporarily moving out of the capital.
• On 13 October, members of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, summoned Klitschko to the session of parliament on 14 October.

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