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Nearly 60% of Kyiv Remains Without Power After Russian Strikes

Published January 21, 2026, 19:03
Nearly 60% of Kyiv Remains Without Power After Russian Strikes

More than half of Kyiv remains without electricity one day after Russian attacks on energy facilities, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Ukrainians struggle with particularly cold temperatures. Many Kyiv residents are living in freezing apartments, with electricity for only a few hours a day, or sometimes none at all, following the recent multiple Russian attacks on the power grid with missiles and drones, the most frequent in nearly four years. “As of this morning, about 4,000 buildings in Kyiv remain without heating, and about 60% of the capital is without electricity,” Zelenskyy wrote on the X platform. The temperature this morning in the Ukrainian capital was minus 12 degrees Celsius, although it is expected to rise slightly in the afternoon. Some residents report on social media that they have been without power and heating for more than a day. In the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine, where the energy system was also heavily bombed, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported that 520,000 consumers remain without electricity today, compared to one million residents in the same situation on Tuesday. He said that the energy infrastructure in the region was attacked again today. In the Odesa region in southern Ukraine, the energy company DTEK reported that one of its facilities was severely damaged this morning, leaving thousands of households without power. Even when electricity is restored to households, they face constant outages throughout the day, as a significant portion of Ukraine's electricity generation capacity has been disabled by Russian attacks. The power outages have severely affected Ukraine's mobile services, with the CEO of Ukraine's largest mobile provider, Kyivstar, saying that just under 10% of their network is not working.

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