Around 1,600 buildings in the Ukrainian capital remained without heat on Sunday following a fresh wave of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, city officials said, as Kyiv reported striking a major oil terminal inside Russia, reports AFP.
Authorities in Kyiv said about 1,100 residential buildings and 500 commercial and public facilities were still without heating amid freezing winter temperatures that have fallen as low as -20°C. The outages come during what Ukrainian officials describe as the most severe energy crisis of the nearly four-year war.
Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s power plants and transmission systems since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022, leaving hundreds of thousands of households facing blackouts and heating disruptions.
Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said overnight that Russian strikes had also damaged railway infrastructure in the southern Odesa region and the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, disrupting transport links.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has continued drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, aiming to weaken sectors that fund Moscow’s war effort. The governor of Russia’s Bryansk border region said an “enemy attack” on Sunday left five municipalities and part of the regional capital without heat and electricity.
Ukraine’s General Staff said it struck the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal near the village of Volna in Russia’s Krasnodar region, close to Moscow-annexed Crimea. The facility is linked to the Black Sea port of Taman, a major hub for oil, coal and grain exports.
The General Staff also said a Pantsir-S1 air defence system in occupied Crimea was hit, describing the strikes as measures to reduce “the offensive and economic potential of the Russian aggressor.”
Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said a Ukrainian drone attack damaged an oil storage facility in Volna and injured two people. More than 100 firefighters were deployed to extinguish several fires, he said, adding that a house in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi was also damaged.
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