ZThe head of the Kiev City Administration: because of the shelling, the city may be left without heat in winter, Kiev is preparing for a scenario according to which the city may be left without heating for several days or weeks in winter due to strikes on infrastructure. The authorities are purchasing mobile boiler houses that can be used in hospitals and schools It is possible that heating will be turned off in Kiev apartment buildings for several days or weeks in winter, Deputy Chairman of the Kiev City State Administration (KSCA) Pyotr Panteleev said in an interview with “Economic Truth”. This probability is not related to gas shortages or technological issues, but to Russian shelling of energy infrastructure facilities, he stressed. According to Panteleev, the central heating network of the capitals is diversified, problems may arise in places where there will be damage as a result of missile attacks. “The system is quite large and inert. This is more than 3 thousand km of pipeline and a large number of sources,” he said.
Earlier in an interview with the Mirror of the Week, the deputy head of the KSCA said that in the event of an emergency, the authorities plan to use mobile boilers running on diesel fuel. Boiler houses can be moved around the city, they work on the principle of an electric generator, but they do not produce electricity, but heat. “For a hospital, maternity hospital or some other home. <...> It can be one school, if you have to deploy a heating point there,— Panteleev told «Economic truth ».
The heating season in Kiev began on October 20, the KSCA said that in this way the authorities want to reduce the load on the power grid. As Panteleev notes, despite the request to reduce electricity consumption, Kiev residents turn on heaters and air conditioners, this overloads the system.
The authorities of the Ukrainian regions are urging residents to reduce electricity consumption and introduce emergency shutdowns due to strikes on infrastructure facilities, which the Russian Defense Ministry has been reporting since October 10.According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, as a result of the shelling, up to 40% of the country’s energy infrastructure was damaged, almost 1.5 million people in seven regions were left without electricity on October 22.
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