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The rays of lanterns wave in the foggy night of Podil. Residents of this historic district of Kiev move cautiously along their capital’s icy sidewalks, which have been plunged into darkness by a series of Russian bombings. A group of young people, illuminated by candlelight, dances in the apartment, as if in response to the owner of the Kremlin, who, having failed to conquer their city, is trying to break it. As temperatures drop below 0°C, Kiev, which had a population of around 3 million before the war, finds itself without electricity, heating or running water. Some districts, such as Obolon, have been without electricity for more than thirty hours. Faced with a series of military setbacks that forced it into a humiliating retreat in northeastern and southern Ukraine this fall, Russia in mid-October opted for a strategy of regular and massive strikes on military targets. its neighbor’s energy when…
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