Ukraine: Attacks disrupt heating as temperatures plunge | EUROtoday

According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since 26 December, assaults nationwide additionally brought on widespread injury to civilian infrastructure, leaving elements of the nation with out electrical energy, heating and water, as temperatures drop beneath zero.

Across the nation, authorities reported almost 100 civilian casualties throughout this era.

The most extreme penalties had been reported in Kyiv City, the place a large-scale assault on 27 December killed and injured a number of folks. Energy services, residential buildings, a preschool, a college dormitory, civilian autos, retailers and different civilian premises had been broken.

No heating in winter

OCHA cited an vitality firm reporting that a couple of million houses in and round Kyiv misplaced energy following the strikes. Water provide was disrupted and roughly one third of the capital’s inhabitants was left with out heating on the peak of winter.

The similar wave of assaults affected the areas of Chernihiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy and Odesa, inflicting additional casualties, and damaging houses, schooling services and infrastructure.

Electricity has since been restored to just about 750,000 households in Kyiv and virtually 350,000 households throughout the encompassing Kyivska area. However, heating and electrical energy stay disrupted by emergency and scheduled energy outages.

Humanitarian companions have arrange warming tents the place residents can search shelter, obtain meals, cost cell phones and entry primary help.

Essential providers beneath menace

The strikes come amid continued stress on important providers. Ukraine accounted for about 42 per cent of all assaults on well being care recorded globally in 2025, in response to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Out of greater than 1,000 assaults on well being services worldwide this yr, 561 occurred in Ukraine, leading to 19 deaths and 201 accidents.

Over the weekend, one other well being facility was broken in a strike in town of Izmail within the Odesa area, underscoring the continuing dangers to civilians and medical providers as winter situations intensify.