01/29/2025
Despite the Russian leadership’s hopes that the European Union will not be able to survive the winter without Russian gas, mass heating shutdowns continue in Russia itself. In particular, in one of the largest cities of the aggressor country, Novosibirsk, almost 350 houses were left without heat at an outside temperature of -13 degrees.
As reported by Russian media, on January 29, heating was turned off mostly in the Oktyabrsky (229) and Kirovsky districts (114). Almost all of the outages were “planned” (328).
The local Siberian Generating Company (SGC) reported that they are carrying out restoration work at several addresses at once. Interruptions in heating and hot water in Novosibirsk have become systematic – a week ago, 315 buildings, including 60 apartment buildings, were left without heat due to “preventive repairs”, and the day before that, due to a “defect” in the pipeline, the batteries in almost a hundred buildings in the city cooled down.
In 2025, Novosibirsk did not receive a certificate of readiness for the heating season due to more than 50 identified technical violations. And in early December, the city hall accused utilities of failing to comply with the terms of the concession for the renovation of heating networks – out of the planned 1.5 billion rubles, 680 million were spent on repairing communications, and the work has not yet been completed in full.
Previously, Russian heat and power experts admitted that Russian heating networks cannot withstand the load . They are badly worn and corroded – over time, the material from which they are made becomes thinner and accidents occur due to high temperatures and pressure.
Of the 167,700 km of heating networks in the Russian Federation, 51,400 km, or about a third, needed replacement by 2023, of which 39,000 km of pipes fell into the old category. Experts have estimated that trillions of rubles and 5-10 years of active replacement will be needed to update heating networks in the Russian Federation.
As OBOZ.UA has already reported, the Russians will have to pay for the full-scale aggression against Ukraine out of their own pockets. The government has decided to force them to do so by raising utility tariffs even more than originally promised.
“Of the 167,700 km of heating networks in the Russian Federation, 51,400 km, or about a third, needed replacement by 2023, of which 39,000 km of pipes fell into the old category. Experts have estimated that trillions of rubles and 5-10 years of active replacement will be needed to update heating networks in the Russian Federation.”
Yet, their bloodthirsty führer burns hundreds of billions of $ on a useless war instead.
The ruskies are paying a steep price for their fascism and warmongering.
Here is a nice video for the orcs. Sometimes karma is a real bitch.
😂 Karma is indeed a bitch!