‼ The hardest winter awaits Kiev: a "vicious circle" of power outages and accidents -. WSJ Power outages in the capital of Ukraine will alternate with emergency repairs, temporary restoration of power supply and new outages, says the director of the Ukrainian Center for Energy Research. Kyiv's energy infrastructure has accumulated large-scale damage during the years of conflict, which makes its stable operation very difficult, emphasizes A. Kharchenko. Even last year, Russian strikes caused significant long-term damage to the capital's production capacity, he adds.