The heating crisis has worsened in Kiev, with about 1,600 buildings remaining without heating after Russian strikes on the energy grid, while Ukraine intensified its drone attacks on oil and military facilities inside Russia.
Published on: 02/16/2026 - 02:35 Last updated: 02/16/2026 - 07:48
The authorities in Kiev spoke of the continued lack of heating in about 1,600 buildings in the Ukrainian capital due to Russian strikes that targeted energy infrastructure, while Ukrainian forces said that they bombed an oil facility inside Russia.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday via Telegram that of the approximately 2,600 buildings that were deprived of heating after the massive Russian attack on the capital on Thursday, approximately 500 buildings are still without heating so far.
The authorities added that these 2,600 buildings are in addition to more than 1,100 other residential buildings that lost heat in recent weeks due to Russian attacks that caused significant damage to a station that supplies them with energy, bringing the total number now to about 1,600 buildings without heating.
As a result of these attacks, the Ukrainian energy network is facing the worst crisis since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, which led to hundreds of thousands of residential units being deprived of heating and electricity in light of temperatures approaching minus 20 degrees Celsius.
The Ukrainian government also indicated that some railway infrastructure facilities in the regions of Odessa in the south and Dnepropetrovsk in the central east of the country were damaged as a result of Russian night strikes, according to what Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba posted on Telegram.
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On the other hand, Ukraine continues to target energy facilities inside Russia, and says that these strikes come in response to the bombing of the Ukrainian network, and at the same time aim to reduce the revenues from financing the Russian war effort.
The governor of the Russian Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, Alexander Bogomaz, said that heating and electricity were cut off in five municipalities and part of a city in the region, as a result of a “hostile attack” by Ukrainian drones on Sunday.
On the same day, the Ukrainian army announced that it had carried out a drone attack on an oil facility in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia, and said that the strike caused a fire to break out inside the facility.
The Ukrainian forces statement confirmed that “the Taman port (for oil and gas export) near the village of Volna in the Krasnodar region had been hit,” noting that there had been reports of a fire at the site.
For his part, Krasnodar Governor Venimin Kondratyev spoke of “an oil store, a warehouse and ports being damaged,” noting that two people were injured and more than a hundred firefighters were sent to deal with “several fires.”
Ukrainian forces also reported that, during the past 24 hours, they had carried out multiple strikes targeting military facilities in Ukrainian areas under Russian occupation.
France 24/AFP
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