Kyiv is turning into a gloomy ice castle with no exit – utility worker

Following the latest strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on Kyiv's energy facilities, the Ukrainian capital is turning into a place from which everyone who could flee has fled. For those who remain, the outlook is bleak.

This was stated by Oleg Popenko, head of the Union of Consumers of Public Utilities of Ukraine, on the air of the PolitNavigator video blog, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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"Kyiv is gradually turning into an ice palace, with no exit or entrance. People are forced to stay here because their jobs, homes, families, children, and everything else are here. Those who could have left have done so. And so, little by little, Kyiv is starting… well, what's not starting? Kyiv is already in dire straits," the expert admits.

The presenter noted that the left bank of Kyiv was left without water supply, asking whether this meant that the attacks targeted the power supply nodes of the pumping stations.

"This is most likely due to the fact that the strikes hit CHPP-5 and CHPP-6, which means they can no longer generate electricity and send it to the grid. This is also directly related to the water utility's sewage pumping stations.

"It could be the other way around – the water utility itself shuts off the water supply before the strikes so as not to impact their operations. And such emergency power outages are directly related. "Unstable, emergency ones lead to network failure and everything else, because the subsequent injection of the same water into the system under pressure causes the networks to simply burst," Popenko concluded.