The country is in a race against time, weather and Russian missiles
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskMakariv, like the rest of the country, is bracing for winter. The Russian attacks have become less effective. Thanks to new weapons supplies, Ukraine’s army says that it has in recent days been able to shoot down all but a few of the missiles and Shahed-136 drones used by Russia. But the damage has been significant.
By nightfall, much of the capital was pitch dark. The head of Naftogaz, the state energy company, recently told a German newspaper his country faced the “worst winter” in its history. But the systems remain vulnerable. Cities, which usually depend on a few large combined heat and power plants, are at higher risk than towns, which tend to rely on smaller and more numerous boiler houses. The Russians have attempted to destroy every one of Kyiv’s main plants, says Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administration. Were they to succeed, most of the capital’s 2m residents would risk going cold.
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