Overview
- In Irkutsk region, a fire in an apartment building killed a man and a woman, with investigators citing careless smoking as the cause.
- In northern Moscow, nine people including three children were rescued from a residential blaze, and one person died after a flat and balcony caught fire.
- A major heating outage in Rubtsovsk, Altai Territory, left more than 900 residential buildings and dozens of schools and clinics without service as regional authorities formed a response team and said core repairs are expected within a day.
- On the Kuril Islands, Severo-Kurilsk reported power disruptions during a severe snowstorm with wind gusts forecast up to 33–35 m/s, prompting school cancellations and curtailed services.
- In Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, a damaged energy facility left multiple settlements without power pending safety clearance for repairs, while in Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia about 13,750 subscribers remain offline with some areas on generators and crews constrained by drone threats.