00:00For the last four years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
00:03it's consistently targeted critical civilian infrastructure,
00:06including hospitals, schools, kindergartens, apartments and power plants,
00:10often in densely populated areas.
00:12By the start of winter, nearly half of the country's power grid was out of commission
00:16and 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity.
00:19Titiana Pavlyuk lives with her husband and her young daughter.
00:22She barely ever sleeps because of the constant wave of ballistic and drone attacks day and night.
00:28Life here in Kiev is not easy at all.
00:33We are struggling every day with electricity cuts, with no heating.
00:39During the day we have drone attacks, at night we have missile attacks.
00:44Today night we had this attack.
00:46I didn't sleep, not at all.
00:49I slept for two, three hours, but in the morning I need to wake up,
00:53I need to prepare breakfast for my daughter.
00:56Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko says Ukrainians are freezing still
00:59because attacks have cut out electricity and heating.
01:03This winter is one of the most difficult winter in the last four years for many reasons.
01:09First of all, we have massive attack from Russian Federation,
01:12chemicalized drone, ballistic missile, cruise missiles, attack our critical infrastructure.
01:18This power plant is now no longer functional
01:20after several ballistic and drone missile attacks since August.
01:23On January 9th, the final attack meant that it could no longer operate,
01:28meaning that 300,000 people in Kiev were plunged into darkness
01:31and left without heat or energy with minus 23 degrees.
01:35As you can hear, the air raid sirens mean that we have to relocate to a shelter,
01:40proving that people in Kiev will never be safe until this war is over.
01:44EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadiy Al-Abib,
01:47delivered 1,000 emergency generators for use across the whole country
01:51as a short-term measure to keep hospitals, schools and shelters functioning.
01:56One such hospital in Kiev she visited was forced to conduct surgery with a torchlight
02:01as Russian attacks meant electricity was cut.
02:04The commissioner also visited Kiev residents in the hospital
02:06who had been badly injured by Russian attacks in family homes.
02:10It's very difficult to speak after what we just saw.
02:17Wounded soldiers, but also patients in very severe conditions because of this war.
02:24It's women.
02:24It's, you know, innocent people who were just living their everyday life.
02:30We just met a woman who has been targeted in her apartment.
02:34She lived in the fifth floor and a drone was entering through the windows.
02:41Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced Russia's Vladimir Putin
02:44as a slave to war in a speech to the Munich Security Conference.
02:48He said Russia had damaged every power plant in the country,
02:51saying Ukraine was doing everything to end the war,
02:53but so far there's no sign the Kremlin has any intention on stopping.
02:58Shona Murray, Euronews, Kiev.
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