#civilian-hardship

#civilian-hardship

Snizhana Petradkhina, a 34-year-old florist, pulled her hands from her thick puffer jacket to reveal two thermal hand warmers. These are saving me today, she said, standing beneath a flickering portable lamp in her stall in an underpass leading to a Kyiv metro station. I am tired of feeling cold, and I am tired of no light. But all of Ukraine is tired of war.

Emergency repair crews are working tirelessly to restore power in Ukraine's Kyiv region, after relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure left residents exposed during the coldest winter in years. In Boryspil, a town of approximately 60,000 people, workers are dismantling and rebuilding damaged electrical systems in harsh conditions. They labour in -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) temperatures from early morning until midnight, according to Yurii Bryzh, who leads the Boryspil regional department at power company DTEK.