Kyiv Residents Pool Together For Solar Panels And Batteries Amid Russian Strikes
Naija News • 4d ago
When Russian strikes cut off the power, heating, and water to swathes of the Ukrainian capital in -20C temperatures, Denys Biletsky was prepared.
Following a round of particularly intense Russian barrages two years earlier, Biletsky had convinced his neighbours to chip in together to install solar panels and batteries on the roof of their high-rise apartment block.
As Ukraine accuses Russia of trying to freeze the population into submission with its most intense attacks on the energy network of the entire war, more and more people in Kyiv are fundraising and pooling cash to buy alternative sources of shared electricity.
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“Without backup power, our building simply wouldn’t be able to function,” Biletsky, the 42-year...