In Kyiv water supply, heat supply, and electric public transport were temporarily suspended due to emergency power outages on Saturday morning, Jan. 10, the Kyiv City State Administration (KMDA) reported.
According to a Telegram statement, emergency outage schedules were introduced across the city on the orders of NPC Ukrenergo. As a result, disruptions were also reported in other communication systems.
Energy workers began restoration efforts immediately.
Kyivpastrans said electric public transport on both the left and right banks of the capital was temporarily halted due to instability in the power system. Replacement bus routes were launched to compensate.
Earlier on Saturday, officials reported that heat supply had been restored to about 4,000 residential buildings, with repair work ongoing.
Later, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration (KMVA), Timur Tkachenko, said electricity supplies were gradually being restored after a technical issue in one segment of the power grid.
According to Tkachenko, the problem has since been resolved by specialists, allowing the city to begin lifting emergency outages and return to scheduled blackout timetables.
However, restrictions will remain in areas where repair work continues following Russian attacks.
At the same time, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported that within 24 hours, heat had been restored to half of the homes that were left without heating after Russian shelling.
“And the utilities continue to work. But! Due to the overload of the energy system, Ukrenergo introduced emergency power outages in the city. And now the work of the water supply, heat supply, and electric transport systems is temporarily suspended,” Klitschko said.
He also called on Kyiv residents who still have electricity to use it sparingly.
“Do not turn on electrical appliances with high energy consumption. In order not to overload the system, so that all residents of the city have light, and accordingly – heat and water,” Klitschko added.
Kyiv municipal services have begun preparing residential buildings with centralized heating for a potentially prolonged shutdown, as repairs to heat-generating infrastructure damaged by Russia’s latest strikes may take days, officials and residents say.
Former lawmaker and energy activist Viktoriya Voytsitska said utilities were draining water from centralized heating systems to prevent pipes from freezing and rupturing as temperatures fall.
She revealed that the move was a direct consequence of Russian strikes on Kyiv’s heat generation facilities and warned that without draining the system, the entire centralized heating infrastructure could be destroyed.
Russia’s overnight combined missile and drone attack early Friday struck Kyiv’s energy and heating infrastructure, leaving more than 6,000 apartment buildings - up to half of the city’s housing stock - without heat, according to Klitschko.
He urged residents who have the option to temporarily leave the capital for areas with functioning power and heating to do so.
Housing maintenance offices and heads of homeowners’ associations, particularly on Kyiv’s left bank, confirmed that water is being drained from buildings amid uncertainty over when heating will be restored.
One building committee head said utilities had not been informed about the extent of the damage or the timeline for repairs.
Former housing minister Oleksiy Kucherenko also confirmed the shutdowns but said a decision on restoring heat could be made within hours, calling on residents not to panic.
Energy experts warned that restarting damaged combined heat and power plants, including CHP-5 and CHP-6, would be difficult if temperatures remain below freezing, even in the absence of further attacks.