“On the night of January 22, six people, including three children, were poisoned by carbon monoxide in the Kyiv region due to heating of premises with a gas stove and gasoline generator.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: State Emergency Service
Details: In the Buchansk district, the residents of one of the apartments used the gas burners of the kitchen stove to heat the room. Later, people felt a sharp deterioration in their well-being. Three people, including two children, were hospitalized with signs of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Another case was recorded in the morning in the Bilotserkiv district. A family of three was poisoned there – two adults and a child.
According to the State Emergency Service, this happened due to the use of a gasoline generator that worked in the basement of a residential building.
The State Emergency Service urged not to use gas stoves, burners or ovens for heating the home and not to turn on generators in closed or semi-closed rooms. The rescuers reminded that carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless, but it is deadly.
We will remind:
- Since October 2025, Russian shelling has damaged 8.5 GW of generating capacity in Ukraine, including thermal and hydroelectric power plants.
- Minister of Economy Oleksiy Sobolev reported that Ukraine was able to accumulate 13.2 billion cubic meters on the eve of winter. m of natural gas, but it still needs to import more than 4 billion cubic meters. m of gas to survive the winter.
- The mayor of the capital Vitaliy Klitschko reported that as of the morning of January 22, about 3,000 residential buildings in the capital remain without heat supply. There are also emergency power outages.