A series of heating system failures across various regions in Russia has left hundreds of thousands of residents without heating amid severe winter conditions, with temperatures dropping as low as -35°C in some areas and -22°C in Lipetsk specifically. The affected cities include Lipetsk, where 282 buildings are without heating, Podolsk in the Moscow region with over 21,000 residents affected, Novomoskovsk in the Tula region with 372 residential buildings, 16 kindergartens, and a hospital affected, Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region with 12 neighborhoods affected, Magadan where temperatures have fallen to -29°C, Khimki, Nizhniy Novgorod with 3,000 people affected, and Novosibirsk. In Novosibirsk alone, approximately 2,500 buildings, housing over 500,000 people, are affected and 13 people were injured due to the heating outages. The incidents have been attributed to the obsolescence of the housing and utilities systems, with local authorities and residents expressing frustration and desperation. Russian authorities have been accused of diverting funds to the war effort in Ukraine rather than maintaining and upgrading the domestic infrastructure.
❗️Russian city Novosibirsk faces another utility crisis. About 2,500 houses where more than 500,000 people live are without heating supply. The temperature during the night dropped to -28 degrees. https://t.co/7XZZFcfV8O
In Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia, a pipe carrying boiling water burst, leaving dozens of homes without heating and injuring 13 people. This was the second time Novosibirsk experienced a heating outage due to a technical failure in the past week. https://t.co/aBIRE9UBtH
In Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia, a pipe carrying hot water burst, leaving dozens of homes without heating and injuring 13 people. This was the second time Novosibirsk experienced a heating outage due to a technical failure in the past week. https://t.co/aBIRE9UBtH
Russia: Over 500,000 people in Novosibirsk are without heating this night. Nationwide, millions have no heating in their homes as a result of structural catastrophic failures of central heating systems. https://t.co/g9s4fZFOAq
The "defect" in Novosibirsk (as local authorities called it) is getting worse. About 2,500 buildings in the city are without heat. Over 500,000 people live in these buildings. The temperature will reach -28 degrees Celsius (-18 Fahrenheit). https://t.co/cJNgZw6uda https://t.co/8QPzRO9Ke1
In Novosibirsk, Russia, a huge fountain of boiling water is seen due to another communal accident. A part of the city is left without heating, Russian media report. The City Hall called the bursting a "defect". https://t.co/DX8DrzNBGa https://t.co/RWi7B9Im8D
The parade of housing and utility accidents, which left hundreds of thousands of people without heat from the Moscow region to the Far East, has been going on in Russian regions since the beginning of 2024 amid severe frosts. The deterioration of utility infrastructure grids in… https://t.co/YPmfDBTENr https://t.co/pZrBnsxTAh
3,000 people are without central heating in Russian Nizhniy Novgorod, local media report. 12 people got burns due to a pipe burst. https://t.co/XgRJLQXbZQ https://t.co/hkBFVgzNV4
"Help! SOS!" — Residents of the Russian city of Khimki complain about the lack of hot water and heating, begging Putin for help. Residents of Pervomayskaya, in particular, claim that hot water disappeared in June, and since January 2, they have no heating. On January 11, due to… https://t.co/bXQ98TWv52 https://t.co/pZrBnsxTAh
Accident at the 🇷🇺 Magadan thermal power station in Russia. The temperature in Magadan is -29. Residents complain that there is weak pressure and no hot water at all, and their radiators are cold. Oh dear‼️ Better wrap up people 🙄 🥶 😂 https://t.co/6Aluzr7L9b
Imagine - there's still more utility catastrophes in Russia! 12 neighborhoods of Stary Oskol, Belgorod region, Russia, were left without heating due to a burst pipeline on the main heat supply grid. "At the moment, the hot water supply and heating in the north-eastern part of… https://t.co/xkIDt3xVSR
Residents of Russian Podolsk report massive pipe bursts in residential buildings due to heating outages. There were reports about ceilings breaking down in apartments. The locals survive without heating for two weeks already. They report that when head of the town arrives to… https://t.co/vU7aysI0MQ https://t.co/6D6kpP8z3d
You won't believe it but yet another town in Russia is now without heat. Novomoskovsk in Tula region - 372 residential buildings, 16 kindergartens and a hospital are without heat because of an incident at the local electricity station. "All resources and means are directed… https://t.co/brqX709QjI https://t.co/WE7Jtj1C8M
🇷🇺RESIDENTS FREEZING AS HEATING FAILS IN RUSSIA In Podolsk, Moscow region, over 21,000 residents face life-threatening cold with temperatures dropping below -20°C amid a major heating crisis. Locals, in desperation, protest against government authorities as homes, hospitals,… https://t.co/eIjkEUQ5jC
"The pipes become dilapidated, and the money goes to the war," people from freezing Podolsk say. The year 2024 in Moscow region started with a communal collapse - water and heat outages began there amid unprecedented frosts. The epicenter is in Podolsk near Moscow - more… https://t.co/em7s41gMH8 https://t.co/vw9vf1ig6A
The number of buildings left without heating in Russian Lipetsk has tripled. Now there are 282 of them, which is about 50 thousand people. The temperature in the city at night can reach -30°C. But Lipetsk residents are warmed by the thought that it is necessary to live until… https://t.co/mr5T7X7p6i https://t.co/E5rHxKEL8z
“It’s a total disgrace. There is no heating and no hot water. We have to sleep in sleeping bags.” With Putin pouring hundreds of billions down his invasion of #Ukraine drain, Russians are freezing. “I have no words to describe how bad the situation is." https://t.co/htZji1kWjf
Putin's press secretary Peskov explained the mass accidents on heating grids across the country by "abnormal frosts" and the obsolescence of the housing and utilities systems. " Titanic efforts are being made to upgrade the housing and utilities systems, but it is impossible to… https://t.co/xgyJ4s3hfY https://t.co/UkN4Yz5uRa
Russian authorities are cutting off heating in prisons so that prisoners go to fight in Ukraine, — BILD. Temperatures have dropped to -35°C in many parts of Russia. It seems that Vladimir Putin has decided to use the cold weather to replenish his weakened troops in Ukraine. Many… https://t.co/gE7fJ7YAv0
Another heating main gone in Russia, this time in Lipetsk. Russia is falling apart. Photos: Astra https://t.co/0KyOzade6I
Hot geysers in the streets of Russian Lipetsk instead of heating in residential buildings. An accident occured in the heating system there. Local authorities report that almost 70 buildings are without heating. The temperature in Lipetsk, Russia is -22c today. https://t.co/m7Q9HOgBTI https://t.co/A6A8DR7aOQ