More than 3,400 high-rise buildings in Kyiv are without heating due to an accident in the energy system – Klitschko

After the morning accident in Ukraine’s energy system, Kyiv is gradually restoring life support systems, but as of the evening of January 31, more than 3,400 apartment buildings are without heating, Mayor Vitaliy Klychko said.

“The accident led to the shutdown of the city’s water and heat supply systems. Water supply has already been restored on the left bank. Currently, the water supply system is operating at reduced pressure in the Holosiyiv, Pechersky, and Shevchenkivskyi districts. Currently, there are 3,419 high-rise buildings without heating – mainly on the right bank of the capital,” said the mayor of Kyiv, adding that “utility and energy companies are working to restore the provision of necessary services.”

Earlier on January 31, the former head of the Ukrenergo company Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said that the current situation in the Ukrainian energy system cannot be compared with a blackout “like in November 2022.” According to him, there was a “serious cascading system accident with repayment of part of the consumers”.

At 14:00 in Kyiv, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, power supply for critical infrastructure was restored, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal said.

Earlier today, the Ministry of Energy of Moldova announced an emergency shutdown in the country’s power system due to problems in the Ukrainian power grid. A number of cities in Moldova, in particular the capital Chisinau, remained without electricity.

In Ukraine, blackouts were reported in Kyiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, and Kharkiv regions, Chernihiv Oblast, Odesa Oblast, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

In particular, the authorities of Kyiv reported that the metro stopped in the capital of Ukraine due to an emergency shutdown. There is also no water supply in the city.

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.