Nearly a thousand homes were left without heat in Rubtsovsk, Altai.

Due to an accident on the main pipeline, the power supply is shut down have fallen 556 multi-apartment and 350 private houses. They were also left without heat. 24 kindergarten, 12 schools and 21 medical institution.

The outside temperature is now Rubtsovsk Around zero degrees. But temperatures are expected to drop to minus 20 degrees Celsius on January 14th. Utility workers promise to fix the problem within 24 hours. 

Also about turning off the heating сообщают Inhabitants Khabarovsk settlement New Urgal, where the temperature is currently at -30 degrees Celsius (by night the air temperature will drop to -42 degrees Celsius). 

Most often, heating outages in Russia's regions are due to severe deterioration of utility networks: according to the Ministry of Construction, this ranges from 40 to 80%.

In the regions bordering Ukraine, the situation is further complicated by shelling. Today, the head Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov called for searching "internal enemies" and "provocateurs" among residents who publicly express outrage over power and heating outages.

Photo: Victor Tomenko