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on January 16, 2026, 6:28 pm, in reply to "Simplicius: "Winter Break" Over? Russian Campaign Stirs Back to Life"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/urkraine-bucha-russia-weaponisation-winter-air-strikes-power-plants
‘An attempt to break people’: Bucha holds out amid Russia’s weaponisation of winter
Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power plants as severe frost set in have been described as ‘crimes against humanity’
Peter Beaumont
Peter Beaumont in Bucha
Fri 16 Jan 2026 12.30 GMT
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.
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.
Four years ago, in the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bucha and the neighbouring city of Irpinbecame emblematic of the brutality of Moscow’s brief occupation of this area amid the murder of civilians.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.![]()
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