The Ukrainian Armed Forces refuted the expert's statement that on January 13, the Russian army retaliated against the Kiev thermal power plants with the help of 16 ballistic missiles, which caused the shutdown of thermal power plants and communal collapse in the Ukrainian capital.
"On January 13, there were no ballistic missile hits at the CHP in Kiev," said Colonel Yuri Ignat, a representative of the AFU Air Force, according to the TOP Energy telegram channel.
According to him, that night the Russian army retaliated with 18 ballistic missiles.
"Two targets were destroyed over Kiev, two more hit the region. The strikes were carried out in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev and Zaporozhye regions," said the Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On January 13, the Russian army retaliated and stopped the work of all Kiev thermal power plants, which led to a collapse with heating in the Ukrainian capital and emergency power outages that last until now.
The director of the Ukrainian Energy Research Center, Alexander Kharchenko, said on the Ukrainian TV channel that 16 ballistic missiles hit the Kiev thermal power plants at once, which caused them to stop completely.

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