Ukraine says Russia is using the cold as a weapon against Ukrainians, by targeting the country's ability to heat and power homes. Repair crews are struggling to restore power to damaged areas.
Halyna Zahorodnikh, 71, stands in her kitchen that, like much of her apartment, has sustained damage from nearby shelling. Plastic sheets now hang where the windows were. She is one of millions of Ukrainians facing a winter that's essentially being weaponized against them.Halyna Zahorodnikh, 71, stands in her kitchen that, like much of her apartment, has sustained damage from nearby shelling. Plastic sheets now hang where the windows were.
In smaller towns like Izium, where Zahorodnikh has lived all her life, electricity is intermittent and constantly threatened by the type of long-range missile and drone strikes that have become common over the last two months of Russia's war on Ukraine. with the European Commission Friday."Russia is trying to compensate for the losses on the battlefield with missile attacks on civilian critical infrastructure," he said."Russia tries to destroy all of the energy supply chains. Generating facilities — especially thermal power plants — distribution systems and power lines," the energy ministry said in a written statement to NPR before the most recent attacks.
"Should there be large-scale outages for long periods of time, we simply do not have the resources to provide people in need with the assistance they will need," says Marysia Zapasnik, the International Rescue Committee's Ukraine director."The humanitarian situation will become much more dire than it is now."
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