Overview
- Heating is described as technically restored citywide, but several hundred buildings cannot circulate hot water because their pumps lack electricity.
- An energy expert called the −15°C assault on a district-heating metropolis unprecedented and warned recovery timelines remain uncertain under continued attacks.
- Emergency crews in the Kyiv region, including Boryspil, are working in −15°C conditions and have restored roughly four hours of power per day in some areas.
- Kyiv’s mayor says the current outages are the longest and most widespread since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
- Officials say sourcing key equipment such as transformers can take months, and unpredictable strikes prevent a return to stable outage schedules.