Kyiv must be evacuated if homes are without heat for three days. This was announced by Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Centre, in a comment to the Telegraph publication. The expert stressed that in the event of large-scale attacks on the capital’s thermal energy infrastructure, a situation may arise where it will be impossible to restore the operation ...

The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, said that active connection of houses to the central heating system is continuing in Kyiv. As of early November, almost 90% of residential buildings had already received heat, and energy workers continue to work around the clock to restore networks after enemy shelling. The mayor emphasised on his Telegram channel that the process ...

As a result of rising air temperatures, Ukraine’s rivers and reservoirs are experiencing active ice drift with a subsequent decrease in the thickness of the ice cover and an increase in gullies and cracks. The Hydrometeorological Centre has issued a warning about ice drift. Such an ice cover is considered insufficiently strong – it is very dangerous to go out ...

Winter mushrooms can be found in almost all regions of Ukraine. In the Kyiv region, a man showed the results of a “quiet hunt” on the last day of January. He posted photos and videos on the Facebook group Mushrooms of Ukraine. The mushroom picker said that this was his first forest hike in 2024. He called it a great ...