US EditionKyiv Mayor Klitschko urges residents to 'temporarily leave city' as Russia targets critical infrastructure
Mayor Klitschko urged residents to leave Kyiv temporarily to ease strain on utilities after Russian strikes cut heating to 6,000 buildings amid freezing temperatures.
- On Jan. 9, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko appealed to residents of Kyiv who can to temporarily leave the capital for places with alternative power and heat after a Russian attack damaged the city's energy infrastructure.
- Russian forces launched a mass barrage of 242 drones and 36 missiles, officials said Moscow has pursued a sustained campaign pounding Ukraine's critical energy infrastructure since late 2022.
- Heating was knocked out in about 6,000 apartment buildings in Kyiv, at least four people died and 19 were injured, while utility workers restored hospitals and maternity wards with mobile boiler houses.
- Authorities warned emergency power restrictions now affect the entire city and urged residents to prepare for prolonged outages as Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said weather will remain challenging.
- Klitschko described the attack as the most damaging to Kyiv's infrastructure, citing the late 2022 sustained campaign against energy assets, and said, 'We are doing everything we can to resolve this as quickly as possible.
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Kiev is without water and heat. The Ukrainian capital's electricity grid was shut down on Saturday for repairs after extensive Russian attacks on Friday night severely damaged it, authorities said. Mayor Vitali Klitschko had already advised residents to leave Kiev early on Friday because of the damaged infrastructure.
Massive Russian strikes killed at least four people and deprived of heating half of Kiev's residential buildings, pushing the mayor of the Ukrainian capital to call on the population on Friday to "temporarily" evacuate the city.This new night of bombing saw the use, for the second time since the beginning of the war in February 2022 of the last-generation Russian ballistic missile Orechnik, in western Ukraine.The European Union, Paris, Berlin an…
A Russian attack left at least half of Kiev's residential buildings without heating, so authorities asked to evacuate city.
Kyiv Mayor Urges Residents to Temporarily Leave City: "All in All, It's Very Difficult to Live Here"
In Ukraine, residents of Kyiv have been ordered to temporarily evacuate the city. Due to numerous Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, much of the city is in darkness and without heat. "It's very difficult to live here," says correspondent Arnaud De Decker.
Last night's attack on Kiev's infrastructure was the most serious of the war to date.
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