Ukrainians Defy Russia’s Attempts to Freeze Them Into Submission
With the temperature plunging and blackouts persisting, Europe worries how long Ukraine can hold out.
Dark streets in Kyiv’s Troeshchyna district.
Photographer: Julia Kochetova/BloombergSince the power went out in the depths of the Ukrainian winter, Mariia Kozhenko puts her two children to sleep at night inside a tent set up on the bed of their Kyiv apartment to try to keep warm.
She’s one of millions of Ukrainians struggling to survive Russia’s missile and drone onslaught in a grim contest for advantage as US-brokered peace talks resumed on Wednesday. “We have nowhere to go,” said Kozhenko, who’s 41.