"Snizhana Petradkhina, a 34-year-old florist, pulled her hands from her thick puffer jacket to reveal two thermal hand warmers. These are saving me today, she said, standing beneath a flickering portable lamp in her stall in an underpass leading to a Kyiv metro station. I am tired of feeling cold, and I am tired of no light. But all of Ukraine is tired of war."
"Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure this winter, causing mass power cuts in the Ukrainian capital, during a bitter cold snap that has left many residents without electricity and running water. But war fatigue had long set in. Ukrainians barely react to the multiple air-raid sirens that ring out every day. The conflict that began at breakneck speed almost four years ago, gripping the world's attention, has gradually ground down into a brutal war of attrition."
Residents in Kyiv and across Ukraine endure bombardments, blackouts and cold as Russian forces repeatedly target energy infrastructure, causing mass power cuts and leaving many without electricity and running water. Citizens cope with portable lamps and hand warmers while daily air-raid sirens provoke little visible reaction amid deepening war fatigue. The rapid 2022 invasion has devolved into a brutal war of attrition. International talks in Abu Dhabi elicited cautious, positive tones among officials but widespread scepticism remains on the ground. Analysts say an end to the war requires either a Russian decision to stop or increased pressure on Moscow, unlikely before spring.
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