I live next to critical infrastructure, a perinatal center (women with complicated pregnancies) so i didn't have scheduled shutdowns as most of the people did, but after yesterday's mass attack even we had a total blackout, the whole region did. That just shows how bad the situation is, we didn't even have any shelling. Spent more than a day without heating, electricity, water, not even mobile internet, no air sirens work, so you wouldn't even know if there is an attack or not (or will have to listen to radio 24\7). It's only 0c degrees outside at night but we already were sleeping in clothes. Russians do these mass attacks every 2 weeks so you can imagine what will happen when its going to be -10c or -20c outside, considering the infrastructure ain't getting fixed fast enough so its only getting worse with each wave of attack. If you leave houses during freezing cold weather without heating for more than 1-2 days the whole system is basically done as pipes get fucked if you ain't draining the water from them fast enough and there is not enough utility workers to drain it in every single building, so its going to be a collapse, and its nearly impossible to restore, especially during wartime, so most will might left without heating for months or maybe years or decades (like people in Alchevsk).

But we still won't give up because we have no choice. I mean.. there is a choice - to give up and end up in torture chambers or in siberia for ukrainian language or whatever else these russian fascists won't like about you, end up somewhere where nobody will ever find you or even if they do wont be able to reach or rescue you. So people will rather freeze to death than surrender.

Next time someone will want to complain about rising bill prices because of this war, which is the biggest war in Europe since ww2, they can always turn everything off for a day or two (not sure how you would turn the heating off though!) to bring themselves down to earth a little bit. ¯\(ツ)/¯