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KYIV, Ukraine - The targeting of Ukraine by sporadic Russian missiles have plunged the country into darkness, plaguing its people and leaving them with no options but to survive the tough, brutally cold winter against all odds with the bombardment having severely damaged the energy and power infrastructure.
Many people who fled war-torn Bucha town and its urban-type settlement Borodyanka, which sustained heavy damage in the early days of the war, have returned to their areas despite their region lying in ruins.
“We live in fear because we do not know what will happen tomorrow,” Bucha resident Grynenko Nina told Rudaw’s correspondent Dilnya Rahman on Sunday, adding that a reason for the constant fear is that “we may come under attack at home at any moment.”
Locals in Bucha and its surrounding areas decry a lack of power, water, and the ineffectiveness of their heating systems.
“In our neighborhood, we do not have a lot of problems with water even when sometimes there are blackouts, but we have problems with the heating system,” said Inna Isaeva, another resident of Bucha.
As the heating system of households is connected to electricity, people are sometimes forced to resort to warm themselves up by using wood heaters during the power outage.
During the fall, Russia embarked on a large-scale missile attack campaign that was aimed at destroying the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Moscow on October 10 heavily damaged the electricity infrastructure across 15 various locations of Ukraine with 83 missiles, disrupting power in 1,300 residential areas of the war-ravaged country. Russia’s campaign to destroy the energy infrastructure of Ukraine continued until mid-December, claiming that the large-scale campaign was in retaliation to a Ukrainian “terrorist” attack on the Kerch bridge which is a critical road connecting Russian-occupied Crimea in Ukraine to mainland Russia.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is approaching its 11th month, and the recent Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian energy plants have left a myriad of people without power during the bitterly cold winter months.
Many people who fled war-torn Bucha town and its urban-type settlement Borodyanka, which sustained heavy damage in the early days of the war, have returned to their areas despite their region lying in ruins.
“We live in fear because we do not know what will happen tomorrow,” Bucha resident Grynenko Nina told Rudaw’s correspondent Dilnya Rahman on Sunday, adding that a reason for the constant fear is that “we may come under attack at home at any moment.”
Locals in Bucha and its surrounding areas decry a lack of power, water, and the ineffectiveness of their heating systems.
“In our neighborhood, we do not have a lot of problems with water even when sometimes there are blackouts, but we have problems with the heating system,” said Inna Isaeva, another resident of Bucha.
As the heating system of households is connected to electricity, people are sometimes forced to resort to warm themselves up by using wood heaters during the power outage.
During the fall, Russia embarked on a large-scale missile attack campaign that was aimed at destroying the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Moscow on October 10 heavily damaged the electricity infrastructure across 15 various locations of Ukraine with 83 missiles, disrupting power in 1,300 residential areas of the war-ravaged country. Russia’s campaign to destroy the energy infrastructure of Ukraine continued until mid-December, claiming that the large-scale campaign was in retaliation to a Ukrainian “terrorist” attack on the Kerch bridge which is a critical road connecting Russian-occupied Crimea in Ukraine to mainland Russia.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is approaching its 11th month, and the recent Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian energy plants have left a myriad of people without power during the bitterly cold winter months.
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