Kyiv residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers struggled to restore power, water and heat knocked out in the latest salvo of Russian strikes.

Four people were killed and 25 others injured in Kyiv after Russia launched a mass attack across Ukraine overnight on Jan. 8-9. Rescue workers were among the victims of Russia's double-tap strike.

Kyiv’s mayor made an unprecedented call to residents to seek temporary refuge outside the Ukrainian capital after a Russian aerial barrage triggered widespread shortages amid frigid temperatures.

Russian drones attacked targets in Kyiv early on Friday, killing four people, injuring at least 19 and inflicting considerable damage on dwellings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

Emergency power outages have been introduced in the city of Kyiv and the Bucha district in Kyiv Oblast on the morning of 13 January.

More than 1,000 apartment buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv are still without heat following a  devastating Russian attack  earlier this week, local authorities said on Sunday.

Ukraine battled Sunday to restore power to tens of thousands of people left without heating in bitterly cold temperatures, after a week of intense Russian attacks that have brought the country’s energy infrastructure to its knees.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault with hundreds of drones and missiles, lasting nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.

Kyiv's water and heating systems were back on after being briefly shut down amid intense cold on Saturday, as engineers scrambled to stabilize a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the agreements were “a signal of how seriously Europe and the entire coalition of the willing are ready to work for real security.”

In 2025, one-time targeted financial assistance of UAH 10,000 was provided to 19,318 Kyiv residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed as a result of Russia’s armed aggression. — Ukrinform.