‘An attempt to break people’: Bucha holds out amid Russia’s weaponisation of winter

<p>Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power plants as severe frost set in have been described as ‘crimes against humanity’</p><p>Outside the main pumping station for Bucha, three engineers, bundled up in parkas, are working on the emergency generator keeping the Ukrainian city supplied with water.</p><p>One holds a heat gun to the generator’s filter in an effort to unfreeze it, his face reddened by blowing snow and a daytime temperature of -12C (10.4F). Watching attentively is the city’s mayor, Anatolii Fedoruk. The generator in his office is also frozen when the Guardian visits and he apologises for the lack of coffee.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/urkraine-bucha-russia-weaponisation-winter-air-strikes-power-plants">Continue reading...</a>