“The mayor reminded that as a result of a large-scale accident on Saturday, 3,419 high-rise buildings were without heating.”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
energy system of Ukraine, Mayor Vitaliy Klychko said.
He recalled that as a result of a large-scale accident on Saturday, 3,419 high-rise buildings were left without heating.
After the last massive attacks by the Russian Federation, the power system of Ukraine is under a state of emergency. In particular, the difficult situation remains in Kyiv, where several hundred high-rise buildings out of six thousand that were left without heating as a result of the Russian strike on January 24 (many of them again after previous shelling on January 9 and 20) are still without heat.
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.