“On Saturday, January 31, 3,419 high-rise buildings remained without heating”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, utilities and energy workers work around the clock to connect houses to heat supply.
The mayor reminded that on Saturday, January 31, 3,419 high-rise buildings remained without heating.
At noon on January 31, the Ministry of Energy was informed about a system accident, as a result of which the high-voltage lines between the energy systems of Romania and Moldova, as well as between the western and central parts of Ukraine, were simultaneously disconnected.
In Ukraine, power outages were reported in a number of regions, as well as in Kyiv. In particular, due to an emergency shutdown, the metro stopped in the capital of Ukraine, and there was also no water supply.
In the evening of January 31, the Ministry of Energy announced that the energy industry had restored electricity supply in all regions of Ukraine.
On January 31, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukrainian energy experts are investigating the causes of the technological accident in the energy system – there is no confirmation of external intervention or cyber attack. According to him, “there are more data that due to weather conditions the lines were iced, automatic disconnections occurred.”
In Ukraine, frost has set in again. It is expected that at the beginning of February, the frost will reach minus 30 degrees in some places.
After the massive strikes of the Russian Federation in January, about six thousand high-rise buildings in Kyiv remained without heat, and their heat supply was gradually restored.