KYIV: Music blasts from speakers and lights strobe in the dark as revellers, clad in puffer jackets and bobble hats, brave Kyiv’s freezing cold at an outdoor party despite blackouts triggered by Russian strikes. Moscow has been pummelling Ukraine’s power grid with drones and missiles, plunging millions into darkness and cold as temperatures dip as low as -20C. “People are tired of sitting without power, feeling sad... It’s a psychological burden on everyone’s mental health,” Olena Shvydka, who threw the street party with the support of her neighbors, told AFP.

Authorities order emergency imports of electricity as people struggle in subzero temperatures.

Daily Russian attacks on energy infrastructure have left residents of the Ukrainian capital without electricity and heating as temperatures drop to −15°C. The strategy does not…