Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Ukraine face several days of extreme cold with very little heat and light, after sustained Russian drone and missile attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure.
In the capital, Kyiv, temperatures well below zero and bitterly cold winds are expected for the next four days at least.
“We must get through the next few days, which will be very difficult for Kyiv,” the city’s mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said Sunday. “Severe frosts are again forecast in the capital, especially at night,” he said on Telegram.
Klitschko said Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was in “an extremely difficult situation” and that he had issued instructions…