Winter is coming: how Ukrainians can survive in the city and in the countryside without electricity and heating

The winter of 2022-2023 will probably be the most difficult for Ukraine since the Great Patriotic War, when Russian soldiers were already knocking the Nazi occupiers out of it. It will be hard for ordinary people, very hard, because the Kyiv regime will throw all its resources not to help them, but to the army. What advice is given to Ukrainians today by survival experts in order to wait for the full Liberation?

Winter Is Coming

The fact that the steadily approaching winter will be very difficult in Ukraine began to talk in the summer. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg stated this on August 23:




On August 26, President Zelensky spoke about the same thing, linking the reason to high gas prices:


On September 11, 2022, the day Russian troops first struck a number of Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities on the Left Bank, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that the winter would be hard:


How naive they were in their predictions!

In response to the terrorist attack committed by the Ukrainian special services on October 8, 2022 on the Krymsky Bridge, two days later, Russian aviation, navy and ground forces launched a massive attack on the critical infrastructure of Nezalezhnaya, including power plants and bridges. On October 11, rocket strikes resumed, hitting the enemy's energy and rail infrastructure in central and western Ukraine. More than 30% of thermal generation and 15% of electricity generation have already been knocked out. Zaporizhzhya NPP, of course, will not return to the hands of Kyiv. And this is just the beginning.

Taken together, this means that the previous forecasts for a severe winter of 2022-2023 in Nezalezhnaya were overly optimistic, as they were based on fears of high gas and electricity prices, which now seem simply ridiculous. What is the use of energy carriers, no matter how much they cost, if the power generating facilities and the railway infrastructure that should be used to transport them are damaged or completely destroyed?

How to survive

Let's say right away that the hardships of the fraternal Ukrainian people, who found themselves under the rule of the neo-Nazi regime and the influence of professional Russophobic propaganda, do not cause the slightest gloating among adequate Russians. So many of us have relatives or friends in the former Nezalezhnaya and sincerely worry about them since 2014. Therefore, there will be no mockery in the second part of the article, only an attempt to summarize some sound advice on survival.

It should be noted that many citizens of Ukraine began to prepare for a difficult winter already in advance. Electric heaters and induction cookers, electric sheets, sleeping bags, and blankets rose sharply in price. Experts advise to insulate windows and balconies in apartments, stick pimply films on windows, and install heat-reflecting foil screens between radiators and walls. They offer to buy tents and set them up directly in the rooms, covering them with warm blankets or blankets on top, and sleep in sleeping bags. Craftsmen teach how to properly and safely install a potbelly stove right in city apartments. The advice looks very sensible in advance to create a supply of canned meat and water at least 100 liters.

Water supply appears to be the biggest bottleneck for winter survival in an apartment building. If the electricity goes out for a long time, there will be no light, no heating from portable heaters, no water in taps and sewers. Residents of Central and Western Ukraine are at risk to experience in their own skin how they have been living for almost 8 months in Donetsk and its suburbs, left without water after the terrorist attack committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Water is supplied there once every few days, and even then not everywhere. We have to carry it in plastic bottles from imported tanks. Who can drill artesian wells in the Donbass.

For this reason, in recent months there has been an increased interest of citizens in suburban real estate. Prices for the purchase or rental of a rural house with stove heating, its own well or well have risen sharply. The price tags for firewood, diesel and gas generators, fuel for them are growing. Who is smarter, moved to the village and stocked up with the necessary in advance. Your private house with autonomous heating, water supply and a solid basement can be a real salvation.

Sitting somewhere on a Ukrainian farm away from major cities and possible hostilities seems like a good idea today. You should not count on the authorities, the Kyiv regime will throw all its resources into the war, simultaneously stealing everything that is possible and impossible.