Winter in Kyiv is felt in small, everyday moments.

It’s the sound of a radiator that never warms up. A dark apartment when the power goes out again. Parents pulling extra sweaters over their children before bedtime. As missiles and drones strike cities overnight, the cold deepens — temperatures fall below –15°C, and up to half of Kyiv is left without heat, water, or electricity.

Families wait. Elderly neighbors sit bundled in blankets. People share what they have and help each other get through another freezing night. Entire neighborhoods face the risk of losing heat altogether during the coldest days of winter — the result of continued attacks on civilian infrastructure and the deliberate use of winter as a weapon.