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“We have no heating, it’s 11 degrees in the apartment. “When the electricity works, we heat ourselves with direct heating from the authorities or with gas,” Novaya Gazeta quotes Podolsk resident Anna as saying. “The radiators are cracking right before your eyes,” she added.
The situation has been critical since January 4th, when there was an accident in the hot water pipe at the local Klimovský ammunition production plant. At that time, outdoor thermometers in the city reported minus 24 degrees.
After the accident, 170 high-rise residential buildings as well as local hospitals, schools and kindergartens were left without heating. Although the city’s mayor, Grigory Artamonov, repeatedly claimed the following day that the problem had been solved and that radiators would be heated in the next few hours, power has not yet been restored to most homes.
In Siberia, temperatures have fallen to minus 50 degrees, and Moscow is also reporting problems
Therefore, the residents of Podolsk wrote a petition demanding “to solve the problem of heat supply in the Klimovsk district and to punish the guilty.” “Hospitals, shops, sports facilities are not heated. “Due to the attacks on the power grid, some homes don’t even have electricity,” the petition says.
According to the Interfax agency, the heating had been put into operation in 81 of 170 houses by midday on Monday. “Electricity payments will be calculated based on December data,” the authorities promise citizens.
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