Russia has been exploiting Ukraine’s harshest winter in years to pummel vitality infrastructure throughout the nation.
Repeated strikes have crippled the ability provide to main Ukrainian cities, leaving hundreds of thousands with out heating or mild as temperatures hover round -15C (5F) for the third week in a row.
Electrical firms perform round the clock repairs – just for their work to be undone at evening, when Russian drone and missiles once more injury energy stations.
In Kyiv, folks have been initially in a position to maintain the chilly at bay by utilizing electrical heaters or wrapping up heat. However the freezing temperatures have lasted weeks now, with no sign of ending.
Even when energy is restored, the provision solely lasts a number of hours – sufficient to cost home equipment however to not considerably heat up houses, that are step by step turning into inhabitable.
The BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov visits the residence of 1 Kyiv resident to search out out what life seems to be like with no heating and no energy.
Digicam: Matthew Goddard, producer: Paul Pradier