Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine this week, reducing warmth to tens of 1000’s of individuals as Ukrainians grapple with plummeting winter temperatures.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Russia’s assault was centered on power services throughout at the very least six areas and concerned 70 missiles and 450 assault drones — which, in response to a NCS tally, is the most important assault of the yr to this point.
The assault got here as Ukrainians cope with a number of the coldest temperatures this winter. On early Tuesday morning native time, the temperature in Kyiv was -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit). Residents might be seen taking shelter on the Kyiv metro bundled up in thick coats and hats and huddled underneath sleeping luggage and blankets.
“This is not a side effect of war. It is Russian strategy. Winter temperatures (being) used as a weapon. Heat and electricity as targets,” EU Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, wrote in an announcement, alongside a photograph of herself sheltering in a single day in her lavatory. “Every night, I think of the millions of people across the country shivering in their homes.”
Here are a number of the tales that made headlines over the previous week, in addition to some images that caught our eye.