26 January 2026
Residents of Omsk partially blocked a road in protest against heat outages and the inaction of local authorities, according to former Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin. According to Ostorozhno Novosti , residents of the Serebryany Bereg neighborhood complain that the temperature in their apartments hasn’t risen above 18 degrees Celsius since early January, and their radiators remain “barely warm.”
Residents say the management company is citing pressure issues at CHPP-5, and city officials are ignoring their complaints. “Serebryany Bereg will soon be dead. They’re charging me for heating, even though it’s +5 degrees in the building,” complained one local. Heating issues have also been reported in other areas of the city. For example, building No. 19 on Gospitalnaya Street has been freezing since mid-December, despite temperatures reaching minus 20 degrees Celsius. Pipe breaks have also been reported throughout the city.
In the wake of the situation in Omsk, similar heating problems are emerging in other regions of Russia. For example, in the city of Zhukovsky, located 20 kilometers from Moscow, on the afternoon of January 24, in temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius (-8 degrees Fahrenheit), the heating was shut off due to a heating main failure. The local administration reported that the outages affected more than 40 residential buildings, with some high-rise buildings also left without hot water.
Shortly before this, power outages were reported in the closed city of Severomorsk, home to the main naval base of the Russian Northern Fleet. After five power transmission towers collapsed, naval ships were put on standby power, while residents of Severomorsk and Murmansk were left partially without heat due to the shutdown of their boilers.
On January 23, residents of Engels, a city in the Saratov region, reported that they had been without heat and hot water for ten days, amid freezing temperatures that, according to Yandex Weather, reached -30 degrees Celsius in some places. They attributed the outages to the poor condition of their boiler equipment and heating networks.
Systemic problems are linked to the critical deterioration of utility infrastructure. According to the Russian Ministry of Construction, network deterioration in the regions reaches 40–80%, and the pace of their renovation, as stated by Alexander Yakubovsky, a member of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Utilities, is half that required.
Fools! They don’t understand that they must freeze and starve for the war. They also don’t understand that such actions are totally superfluous. The blood-drenched ghoul doesn’t give a rat’s *ss about them.
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