EADaily, January 21st, 2026. Kiev is in the conditions of energy and utility collapse, the situation in the Ukrainian capital is close to a complete humanitarian catastrophe.

The capital of Ukraine has begun to live in very extreme conditions due to Russian shelling of the energy sector.

KIEV, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia's air raids caused large-scale power and water supply disruptions in Ukraine's capital of Kiev on Tuesday, said Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko. A total of 5,635 apartment buildings in Kiev were left without heating following Russia's overnight aerial attacks, Klitschko wrote on social media Telegram.

EADaily, January 20th, 2026. Officials of the Kiev regime have written off billions of government hryvnia for the construction of protective structures at substations and energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.

Kiev mayor says the city's left bank is without water, forcing social infrastructure facilities to switch to autonomous power sources.

Amid the worsening crisis in energy and heat supply, Kiev might have to evacuate some of its resident — as stated by Bohdan Kitsak, a