This winter, tens of thousands of Kyiv residents will be left without heating — burst pipes are flooding apartments

Residents of Ukraine’s capital whose buildings have had heating pipes burst will be left without heat for the rest of this winter.

This said Oleh Popenko, head of the Union of Utility Services Consumers, speaking on the national telethon.

According to him, restoring heating would require a full technical audit of each building—roughly 50 to 100 properties. After that, the process would require budget funding, procurement, design-and-cost documentation, selecting contractors through the Prozorro system, and carrying out major repair work. Even if funding is available and under the most optimistic scenario, he said, the process could take eight to ten months.

In total, apartments belonging to 100,000–150,000 Kyiv residents have been affected. Local Telegram channels have posted videos showing residents in a high-rise trying to cope with flooding by placing buckets under streams of water pouring from the ceiling.

Earlier reports said that pipes burst in Kyiv apartments because коммунальные services failed to drain the water in time.