Russia continues daily, systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. On Jan. 14, explosions were reported across Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions.
On Jan. 14, a Russian drone struck a children’s playground next to the Stepan Bandera monument in central Lviv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.
“Symbolic places are what the aggressor fears most,” Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote about the attack.
The blast shattered windows in nearby buildings, including a university campus, residential homes, and a church.
A video circulating online shows a municipal worker calmly shoveling snow immediately after the nearby explosion.
The attack also damaged stained-glass windows in a former church, now the Cathedral of Saints Anna and Elizabeth of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sadovyi added.
Meanwhile, Kyiv has faced ongoing emergency power outages for a week. Around 500 apartment buildings remain without heating, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, adding that repair and restoration work is being carried out around the clock.
“The situation is extremely difficult,” Klitschko said.
Russian forces continue shelling the capital. The New York Times reports that the Kremlin is trying to break civilian morale and pressure the government into concessions in peace talks.
“Just as Kyiv has entered a deep winter freeze, Russia has intensified a campaign to knock out the city’s heating and electrical infrastructure,” the journalists wrote.
Temperatures in the city average between 9 and 12 degrees below zero degrees Celsius.
Local residents are offering help to one another on social media, utility workers are operating around the clock, “Resilience Sites” are open, the Ukrainian Railways has deployed “Resilience Carriages” in the Kyiv region, and theaters are still staging performances even without power, reports the local outlet Pro:Kyiv.
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Photos: Lviv City Council
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