Vatican issues postage stamp depicting Kyiv cathedral during wartime blackout
The Vatican's new €1.35 postage stamp shows Kyiv's Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ with no electricity
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Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove
Amidst freezing temperatures and Russia’s systematic infrastructure strikes, Kyivans have developed specialized toolkits of DIY engineering and adaptive routines to maintain their homes.
Missiles and drones hit Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv overnight as Russia targets residential areas
Russian forces struck four Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones overnight on February 26, wounding at least 24 people — including a 7-year-old in Kharkiv and an 8-year-old in Zaporizhzhia — and leaving over 500 buildings without heating.
“We will not back down”: EU leaders arrive in Kyiv on fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv for the tenth time since the start of the war on 24 Febr., joined by European Council President António Costa and leaders of nine countries, to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.
She lived in Europe for years and came back to Kyiv for week. Returnee says Ukraine’s reality is not what you read about in news
She arrived from warm, well-lit Europe to renew documents, and within a few hours, she was hearing explosions…
Kyiv IT worker jailed for life — court finds he helped Russia strike the power grid that heats his city
He also gave the enemy coordinates of the defense enterprise where his stepfather worked — and reported back on whether the strikes hit their targets, per the PG Office,
They said the van was going to the front to save wounded soldiers — it was a remote-controlled bomb
SBU detained two suspects who rigged a Peugeot Partner with explosives and gas cylinders under the cover of a medevac conversion, then parked it next to an SBU building in Kyiv — Russian handlers monitored the scene via webcam and detonated the bomb remotely.
Kyiv restores heating to 2,100 buildings, but damaged power plant leaves thousands in the cold
Darnytska thermal plant too severely damaged to resume heat supply.
“Targeted attack”: President Aliyev says Russia struck its diplomats in Kyiv three times after Azerbaijan began strengthening ties with Ukraine
Former Soviet republics unite — Azerbaijan aids Ukraine. Russia's response: Three "targeted" embassy strikes.
NATO’s Rutte met Ukraine’s most famous sapper in only region bordering two dictatorships at once. He’s not even man
He saw "determination never to surrender."
About 20K Slovak donors raise €1.1M for Ukrainian generators and charging stations
Kyiv has received the first batch of humanitarian aid from Slovakia, including 16 generators of various capacities and…
Russia can launch up to 30 ballistic missiles against Ukraine in single salvo. Here’s why that changes everything for 2026
91 ballistic missiles in January was the record.
Slovakia’s government distances from Ukraine—but its citizens send warmth in €1 million donations instead
In under two weeks, nearly 19,000 Slovaks fund generators and charging stations for Ukraine’s hardest-hit regions.
More French Mirage jets and AASM bombs could soon bolster Ukraine’s skies amid Russia’s winter attacks
French minister visited air defense positions, then signed joint production deal with Ukraine.
Nearly 9,000 Kyivans seek warmth as capital faces worst power, heating crisis — Zelenskyy
Ukraine is increasing Ukrzaliznytsia repair crews from 40 to 60 brigades and adding Naftogaz teams specifically to assist Kyiv, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy identified as facing the worst electricity and heating situation among all oblasts
Ukraine’s nuclear plants have the power — the grid damaged by Russia still can’t carry it
Ukrenergo reported that atomic generation remains partially offloaded because damaged high-voltage substations cannot handle the output, as another 101-drone barrage from five directions hit overnight on 8 February.
Kyiv residents face months without heat after Russian strike destroys Darnytska power plant
Over 1,100 apartment buildings affected across two districts.
Europe scrambles to ship generators to Ukraine as thousands of Kyiv families remain without heat three days after Russian strikes
International partners delivered backup energy equipment totaling over 145 MW in a single week, while over 230 repair crews battle to restore heating knocked out during Russia's overnight attack on 3 February.
Kindergarten, school, railway’s warming shelter among Russia’s overnight targets as Trump-pushed Abu Dhabi talks enter day two (PHOTOS)
Russian forces launched 183 drones two ballistic, hitting railway infrastructure and energy systems. A female station duty officer in Shostka district was injured walking to her shift.
Behind the black windows: How Kyiv survives a winter in the dark (PHOTOS)
In a city of prolonged blackouts and extreme freezes, survival in Kyiv has become a calculated battle fought with makeshift engineering and a finite supply of luck.