Major heat supply facility in Kyiv heavily damaged – mayor

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said that a key infrastructure facility providing heat to homes in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts had been heavily damaged following Russia's February 3 missile and drone attack.

According to Ukrinform, Klitschko announced this on Telegram.

He said that more than 1,100 residential buildings in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts remained without heating following the massive enemy strike on the capital's critical infrastructure.

He added that the facility supplying heat to these buildings had been severely damaged overnight on February 3 and that specialists were assessing the extent of the damage and the prospects for restoration.

Klitschko noted that water had been drained from heating systems in the more than 1,100 buildings in the morning to prevent freezing. He also said that the city was deploying additional warming centers in schools in the affected neighborhoods. He specified that there were currently five additional heating points connected to mobile boiler units in the Darnytskyi district and four in the Dniprovskyi district, where people could stay both day and night.

He also added that the State Emergency Service was setting up 36 warming points in the Darnytskyi district across 20 locations and 27 warming points in the Dniprovskyi district, also across 20 locations.

Klitschko said that the addresses of the warming centers were available on the official resources of the district administrations, the city authorities, and the State Emergency Service.

Photo: Kyiv Security Forum