Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Ukraine face several days of extreme cold with very little heat and light, after sustained Russian drone and missile attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. In the capital, Kyiv, temperatures well below zero and bitterly cold winds are expected for the next four days at least. Klitschko said Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was in “an extremely difficult situation” and that he had issued instructions for communal “heating points,” powered by generators, to be fully functional. The latest Russian strikes followed a short-lived moratorium on attacks by each side on the other’s energy infrastructure, agreed at the urging of the United States. The consequences of Russian strikes are aggravated in many urban areas by reliance on centralized heating systems, a legacy of the Soviet era.

Source: CNN February 08, 2026 23:14 UTC