{"id":696510,"date":"2026-01-15T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696510\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:32:10","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-declares-energy-state-of-emergency-as-cities-shiver-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696510\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy declares energy state of emergency as cities shiver | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The president said <strong>Kyiv \u2013 whose mayor he regularly clashes with \u2013 had done considerably less than other major centres<\/strong>, notably Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city, Kharkiv, to prepare for the hardships inflicted by the attacks. \u201cEven in recent days, I do not see sufficient intensity,\u201d he said. \u201cThis must be urgently corrected. Decisions must be made.\u201d The <strong>Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, countered that heating had been restored<\/strong> to all but about 400 of 6,000 affected apartment buildings and support centres were operating 24 hours a day. \u201cSuch statements, first of all, undermine the dedicated work of thousands of people, professionals,\u201d Klitschko wrote. \u201cThey may not have weapons in their hands, but through their tireless efforts they are also fighting for their country.\u201d Zelenskyy said a permanent coordination headquarters would be set up in Kyiv with Denys Shmyhal, the newly appointed first deputy prime minister and energy minister, overseeing the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president said Kyiv \u2013 whose mayor he regularly clashes with \u2013 had done considerably less than other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-696510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115896303254002859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}