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Repeated Russian attacks on Kyiv's power infrastructure have left over 900 buildings without heating amid winter cold, affecting many elderly residents, officials said.
- KYIV, Jan 28 — Intense Russian attacks have plunged millions of Ukrainians into darkness and cold, making life especially hard over the next three weeks as temperatures drop.
- The head of DTEK last week warned Ukraine is nearing a 'humanitarian catastrophe' due to energy damage, while Moscow says it aims to undermine Ukraine's ability to fight.
- Lidia Teleschuk, 91, said she has little electricity or heating this month, warming hands over gas-stove flames, using hot-water bottles and power banks to cope, while volunteers provide food and attention.
- Russian strikes this month cut power to tens of thousands and heating to 6,000 apartment blocks, and over 900 buildings still had no heating on Tuesday, with repair crews slowed by sub-zero temperatures and strikes.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said this month Ukraine's energy system meets only 60% of winter demand, while Ukraine's solar energy association reported over 8.5 gigawatts installed, but below-20C next week risks power strain in northern and eastern Ukraine.
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In the Ukrainian capital Kiev, it currently has up to minus 20 degrees Celsius outdoors. Also many apartments are not warm due to Russian attacks. Tens of thousands of households were repeatedly cut off from power supply in January, in half of the blocks the heating did not work anymore. "My hands, my fingers, they become deaf, the 89-year-old Evgenia Jeromina tells the news agency AFP. She warms her hands over the gas flame on the stove and wea…
An elderly woman who survived the Holocaust was found dead in Kyiv. The media wrote that she allegedly froze in her own apartment. However, the city authorities of the capital and the police denied this.
Ukrainians face tough weeks as Russia targets power sector during freeze
KYIV, Jan 28 - Life will be particularly tough for Ukrainians over the next three weeks due to plunging temperatures and intense Russian attacks on the energy system that have already deprived millions of light and heat, a senior lawmaker said on Wednesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Almost forgotten in the ice cold: a call for help from our correspondent Olivia Kortas from Kyjiw
A house in Kiev, left unheated by Russian strikes, found the body of an elderly woman, Evgenia Besfamilina, who, according to the New Europe Gazette, survived the Holocaust and grew up in an orphanage where she was given a name. "It is nowhere, without roots, without relatives, only with the nationality and mother tongue of Idish," the article says.
She trembles in her apartment and, from the bottom of her memory, 91-year-old Lidia Telestchouk says she didn't experience such a cold winter.
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