“Unfortunately, the electricity supply situation in the city remains difficult. Emergency blackouts continue. Previously announced hourly outage schedules and group distribution are not currently in effect,” the company stated.
The most difficult situation is currently in parts of Dniprovskyi and Desnianskyi districts of the capital. About 44,000 households remain without electricity. The company stressed that repair work continues nonstop.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that as of the morning of Jan. 21, about 4,000 buildings in Kyiv were still without heating, and almost 60% of the capital was without electricity.
The public water supply utility company Kyivvodokanal, in turn, reported that water supply was fully restored in the capital on Jan. 21 after repair work, although water may temporarily not reach upper floors of high-rise buildings due to a lack of electricity.
First Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov said the situation in the energy system in Kyiv city and oblast remains difficult due to additional load caused by freezing temperatures.
Overnight into Jan. 20, Russia launched a new massive attack on Kyiv using ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones. As a result of damage to energy facilities, roughly half of the city’s apartment buildings — more than 5,600 — were left without heat, the left bank without water, and hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity.
On the evening of Jan. 20, heating was reconnected to 1,600 buildings; approximately 4,000 remained without heat overnight.