“Two thousand homes in Kyiv will be without heating for at least the next two months,” – Klitschko said

The Darnytsia Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP) in Kyiv suffered critical damage on the night of February 3, and restoring it will take at least two months.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported this on his Telegram channel.

“Specialists have assessed the nature of the damage, including to equipment at this critical infrastructure facility, which was one of the enemy’s targets during the attack on the capital on February 3. We are talking about the Darnytsia CHPP. This plant supplied heat, including to parts of the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts—more than 1,100 high-rise buildings. In those buildings, on the morning of February 3, the water was drained from the heating systems to prevent freezing. Specialists’ conclusions at this stage are that the facility has sustained critical damage, and restoring its systems and equipment will take at least two months (if there are no further destructive enemy strikes),” Klitschko wrote.

He added that additional heated support points have been set up in schools in the neighborhoods where homes were left without heating.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (State Emergency Service of Ukraine) is also deploying 36 additional warming points in Darnytsia and 27 in the Dniprovskyi district. Meanwhile DTEK will arrange the most flexible possible electricity supply schedules for buildings without heat in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.

Klitschko also said that the Kyiv City State Administration website has published a list of buildings in Kyiv that cannot receive heat until the damaged CHPP is restored. The list currently includes 1,126 buildings in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.

Earlier, media reports said that one of Kyiv’s CHPPs could not be restored after Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector, but the Verkhovna Rada later denied that information.