Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in the early hours of Monday with a horde of self-detonating drones - once again bombing critical infrastructure but with a sinister tactical shift that seemed intended to deprive Ukrainians not only of heat, electricity, and water but also of sleep.
Russian volunteers are crafting girdles from dog hair to help keep soldiers fighting against Ukraine warm. Children as young as six are tasked in school to sew balaclavas and make amulets believed to protect soldiers. Elderly "knitting battalions" are churning out chunky socks to send to the front.
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is bracing for the possibility that Russia will sharply escalate the war in a winter offensive as Moscow tries to turn the tide on the battlefield and limit political backlash at home, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday.
A salvo of more at least 76 Russian missiles knocked out power and water across Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued their campaign of attacking infrastructure.
Since Februrary, Amazon has been playing Santa Claus to the Ukraine, delivering planeloads of goods, including blankets, hygiene kits, diapers, food, and toys, for the war-torn nation and refugees in Poland and other parts of Europe.
Russia has enough firepower for only three or four more missile barrages of the kind that have devastated Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Kyiv's top defense official said.
At a closed-door meeting at the National Bank of Ukraine, which now has a military checkpoint just outside its headquarters, senior officials last week confronted new projections that their country's war-ravaged economy could sink even further.
Suedi Murekezi, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose family says he was captured by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine earlier this year, has been freed in a prisoner swap, a senior Ukrainian official announced Wednesday.
If Kyiv is struck by a nuclear bomb, Serhiy Dmytruk's biggest fear is that he will survive the blast but die anyway from hunger, thirst or cold. So he has assembled what he calls his "nuclear backpack," crammed with enough provisions and survival paraphernalia to sustain him for a week.
