‘An attempt to break people’: Bucha holds out amid Russia’s weaponisation of winter
The Guardian • • world
Key Points:
- Engineers in Bucha are working to keep the city's water supply running via an emergency generator amid freezing temperatures of -12C and ongoing power outages caused by Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
- Despite repairs after Russia's brief occupation in 2022, Bucha faces severe energy rationing worsened by recent attacks, leaving many businesses struggling and some forced to close due to unreliable electricity.
- The city's distributed power supply system, developed post-Soviet era, offers some resilience compared to older centralized systems in Kyiv, but Russian strikes timed with extreme cold have severely disrupted heating and electricity.
- Displaced families housed in prefab buildings reliant on electric heating suffer greatly during power cuts, with temperatures inside dropping dangerously low and residents experiencing fear and hardship.
- Ukrainian
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