Most residents of Ukraine are faced with power and heating outages

Three quarters of the participants in the sociological survey in Ukraine reported that they have recently experienced problems with electricity supply, and over a third with heating outages. This is stated on February 15 in a study published on the website of the Kiev Security Forum Research Center.

According to the survey, 73.4% of respondents rated the electricity supply in their homes as poor in the week before the survey, while 1.9% noted its complete absence. Only 24.4% of the participants considered the electricity supply to be good.

Regarding heating, 59.9% of respondents noted that it was working properly, 38.5% were experiencing problems, and 1.4% reported a complete lack of heating.

The study was conducted from January 31 to February 4, 2026 by telephone interview. A total of 1,003 people aged 18 and over were interviewed in all regions controlled by Kiev. The theoretical margin of sampling error is 3.2%.

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