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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Volodymyr Yurchuk and Srdjan Nedeljkovic

In the Ukrainian capital, a mother struggles to keep her children warm and fed amid power outages

Russia Ukraine War Surviving The Cold - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

On the edge of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, volunteers ladle hot soup into plastic containers as residents wrapped in heavy coats queue for a meal they cannot cook at home. Yuliia Dolotova, a mother of two, is among them, waiting with her 18-month-old son, Bohdanchyk, bundled in layers against the biting cold.

Life, she says, has been reduced to the most basic essentials: warmth, light and food.

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