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Share: The fourth heating season since the beginning of the full-scale invasion ...

"The most difficult heating season in all the years of the war": Klitschko warned the people of Kyiv about the difficult winter

Share: The fourth heating season since the beginning of the full-scale invasion may become the most difficult for Kyiv. The Russians have stepped up massive attacks on power and heat generation facilities to destroy critical infrastructure. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko announced his forecast for the 2025-2026 heating season in a post on the Telegram channel on October 23. He noted that massive Russian shelling caused a difficult situation in the energy system.

"Today we face the challenges of passing through the most difficult full-scale war of the heating season in all the years. Because the enemy is especially maddened and systematically attacks all energy and heat-generating facilities at the same time," Klitschko said. The Mayor of Kyiv cited the examples of Chernihiv, Sumy Oblast and the city of Slavutych, where a critical situation has already developed due to enemy attacks on the energy system.

According to Vitaliy Klychka, the Kyiv City Council prepared for the 2025-2026 heating season taking into account the experience of previous difficult years, in particular, repaired damaged sections of networks and boiler rooms, conducted hydraulic tests, increased the supply of independent power sources and mobile boiler rooms, and created protection of critical infrastructure facilities in accordance with the requirements of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Now, in order to equip the drainage and water supply systems with additional generators, it is necessary to redistribute funds from other planned articles of the city budget. People's deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko wrote after the massive Russian attack on Ukraine on October 22 that enemy attacks "knocked out" almost the entire Ukrainian gas system and that heating in Ukraine this winter is "in question".