Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko says the heating is still not working in some 450 apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital in the wake of Russian attacks this month. In one particularly affected district,

EADaily, January 30th, 2026. The Kiev regime is already preparing the basis for accusing Russia of disrupting the "energy truce," which Moscow has not yet officially confirmed. The authors of the telegram channel "Two Majors" drew attention to this.

In Kiev, employees of the Territorial Recruitment Center (TCK, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine) abducted a clergyman of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), Archpriest Alexander Itsenko.

On the night of November 28, the Russian military attacked the Belgorod community in the Kiev region with drones, the head of the regional military administration Nikolai Kalashnik said. "A multi-storey residential building was damaged. There was a fire on the roof and on the top floor," wrote Kalashnik in his Telegram channel.

EADaily, January 29th, 2026. The head of the Desnyansky district of the Ukrainian capital, Maxim Bakhmatov, said that he was offering to dig toilets in Kiev for a reason. According to him, the sewage system in the houses freezes and there are already cases.

Russia intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy sites, leaving Kiev without heat and prompting Zelensky to press allies for air defence aid.

He said Kiev had received no signals from Russia and was not sure whether an "energy truce" would actually come.

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EADaily, January 28th, 2026. By the weekend on Frosts are returning to Ukraine. In the Ukrainian capital, meanwhile, emergency power outages continue, and more than a thousand high-rise buildings remain without heat supply.