"Ukraine is especially vulnerable to such attacks, as Moscow can exploit a widespread Soviet-era heat system in which multiple apartment blocks rely on communal central heating. Under this system, water is heated at a huge main power plant and then is pumped via pipes to residential blocks, where it is distributed into radiators and taps. That means that with a single strike on a heating plant, Moscow can wipe out heating for whole neighbourhoods."
"These thermal power plants often also produce electricity, leaving people cold and in the dark. Kyiv has been the main target of such attacks this year, with heavy bombardment of thermal power plants and sub-stations that pump the hot water. People in the capital live in 20th-century Soviet Union apartment blocks that were mass-produced out of concrete panels and are called panelki."
Relentless Russian strikes on energy infrastructure have deprived many Ukrainians of heating during the coldest winter of the war. A widespread Soviet-era centralized heating network heats water at large thermal plants and pumps it through pipe networks into radiators and taps across multiple apartment blocks, so a single strike can cut heat for whole neighbourhoods. Thermal power plants frequently also produce electricity, causing simultaneous heating and power outages. Kyiv has been heavily targeted, leaving roughly 3,500 apartment buildings without heat, frequent capital-wide blackouts and authorities operating tents for residents to warm up.
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