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Last night Russia attacked the Kyiv region, causing damage to cars in a parking lot in the Oblonsky district, while there were also consequences in the Sviatoshynsky district.
Due to an attack on the Vyshgorod district, a man had been injured and hospitalised with a lacerated chest wound, reported the OVA, adding that a private house was also damaged.
Another person had been injured in the Solomianskyi district as a result of an attack, reported the OVA, noting that the blast wave of the detonation damaged windows in four buildings, as well as damaging a preschool education facility and an economic building.
Kyiv Emergency Services released footage of a fire that had broken out at the Dnipro hotel in the centre of Kyiv this morning, noting the fire had broken out at the 4th floor of the hotel which is located on Khreshchatyk Street, and services were on the scene.
Repairs to the Darnitsa Thermal Power Station are likely to take a significant amount of time, reported the Minister of Energy Denys Shmygal.
Shmygal said that the Darnitsa Thermal Power Station was only focused on producing heat for people, adding that options are currently being explored for connecting the backup heat supply to buildings that have ended up in a zone of prolonged power outages.
Kyiv Post visited the ground of the thermal power plant on Kyiv’s left bank that was completely destroyed by Russian ballistic missiles, so that journalists could document the destruction firsthand.
What once supplied heat to hundreds of thousands of residents had been reduced to twisted metal and shattered concrete following the Russian attack, which effectively ended the so-called ‘energy-truce’.
Built in the mid-1950s, the plant was a backbone to Kyiv’s heating system.
Today, tens of thousands of civilians remain without heat as temperatures continue to plummet to −20°C, but there is no clear timeline for restoration, as energy crews worked inside the wreckage trying to determine whether anything can be salvaged.
