By
Matthew Luxmoore and Georgi Kantchev
| Photographs by Joseph Sywenkyj for The Wall Street Journal
Updated Oct. 20, 2022 9:43 pm ET
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia’s attempts to destroy Ukraine’s heating and power capacity has added a new dimension to the conflict, with Moscow seeking to erode the resilience of Ukrainian civilians even as the Kremlin attempts to regain the initiative against Kyiv on the battlefield.
Kyiv says the systematic destruction of power stations and heating infrastructure across the country over the past src0 days aims to bend Ukrainians’ will by causing a humanitarian catastrophe as temperatures drop.
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