Ukraine reports hundreds of apartment buildings without heat after strikes on energy infrastructure
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Kyiv reported 1,130 apartment buildings on the left bank of the Dnipro were without heating from Jan. 3 and may remain so for months amid attacks on thermal plants and transmission lines; local authorities opened warming centers and President Zelensky reiterated willingness to negotiate.
Ukrainian officials told the Current Time bulletin that more than 1,100 multiunit residential buildings on the left-bank Dnipro were without central heating on Jan. 3 and could remain without service through the winter if strikes on heat-generation and transmission infrastructure continue.
The report said attacks damaged apartment blocks, warehouses and power lines; municipal authorities have opened additional warming centers and meal points and warned of power and heat interruptions during restoration work.
The program quoted a city mayor’s list of affected addresses concentrated near the Darnytska thermal power plant and said the outages were concentrated in that shore-side neighborhood. In his evening address, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians that Kyiv was open to talks that could advance peace and said negotiations should aim to reduce Russia’s will to pursue the conflict further.
Field and analytical reporting included accounts of strikes on Kropyvnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy and described deaths and injuries linked to attacks on residential buildings. The broadcast also cited analysis that Russia was using drones and missiles to degrade logistics and prepare for ground operations in some sectors.