And then the winter came

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting a full-scale war. Russia, at the beginning of the winter, started to hit power plants to put the population in the dark and cold during the harsh Ukrainian winter.

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting a full-scale war. Having failed to take Kyiv and after the slowdown suffered in the various ground operations in the Donbass due to the strenuous resistance of the Western-backed Ukrainian army, Russia changed its war strategy as winter approached.
In fact Russia, at the beginning of the winter, started to hit power plants to put the population in the dark and cold during the harsh Ukrainian winter. More than half of the country currently lives without electricity, water and heating. Particularly difficult is the situation in the capital Kyiv and its suburbs, which were destroyed in the first months of the war and are continuously targeted by missile and drone attacks on an almost daily basis. In the capital people take refuge not only in underground stations but also in the hundreds of old antinuclear bunkers that are a throwback to the Soviet era and the Cold War. The winter, where temperatures drop as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius, is extremely dramatic for the local population.