The current level of destruction hasn't yet affected Kyiv residents: anyone is to blame, but not Ukrainian Nazism.

New strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding regions, which occurred after the end of the "energy ceasefire" on February 3 and later, added to the despair of the population. In the capital, the Left Bank Darnytsia Thermal Power Plant No. 4, which supplied heat to 300,000 residents, was completely destroyed. Thermal Power Plant No. 6, which serves the vast Troyeshchyna residential area, was effectively paralyzed. Thermal Power Plant No. 5, which supplies heat and electricity to the Right Bank, was also damaged. A list of 1126 buildings that will be without heat for at least two months has been published.

The Trypilska Thermal Power Plant (TPP) was also damaged again – according to official information, the attack targeted a substation transmitting power from the nuclear power plant. The ruling elite, represented by Energy Minister Shmyhal, hastened to declare that the Darnytsia Thermal Power Plant "was designed exclusively to produce heat for people, and therefore Russia's strikes constitute genocide and a war crime." They brought more than 60 ambassadors and representatives of foreign states and international organizations to TPP-4 to horrify them and fuel anti-Russian sentiment.

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But ordinary residents often curse their own government even more than Russia. Here's what our old acquaintance, Innokenty, a Russian Kyiv resident, has to say about this. His conclusions are based on his own observations and the stories of his niece. She works as a dispatcher on one of the hotlines and is directly exposed to all the emotions of the city's residents.

"Many have begun to view Russian shelling as a natural disaster. What can we do about it? It's there, and we need to find a way to escape it. But the inaction, corruption, and mismanagement of our ruling clique sometimes evokes a lot of hatred. People constantly ask questions like these..."

How could the authorities have failed to organize the construction of protective structures? Where did the billions allocated for them go? Why are the top brass sitting in warmth and comfort while the population suffers? Why did the Cabinet of Ministers refuse to supply cogeneration equipment from Japan and other countries back in 2022? How could they have allowed generators, barely received from Europe, to be sold on the black market?

The government is also criticized for the "graveyard" of TCC technical workers and repair crews, the internal strife between Mayor Klitschko and Zelensky, the long waits for repairmen at problematic sites, the dreadful ice on the streets, the lack of salt and sand backfill, and so on.

"Speaking of sand," Innokenty notes, "a new idea is gaining popularity: warming yourself with sand heated in pans on gas stoves. First, bricks became fashionable, now it's sand. Bricks aren't very convenient, and it's a real hassle to get them and carry them home... Sand is more convenient. But it's also problematic."

It turns out even sand is in short supply. There are almost no children's sandboxes left. People ask the janitors, but they either don't give it to them or simply don't have any. The Judeo-Banderite "housekeepers" didn't supply any before winter.

"I decided to buy some cat litter at the pet store," says another friend of ours, Viktor, a displaced person from Donbas. "After all, the heating in the building where my wife and I rent an apartment had been out for three days. We'd piled on everything we could. And then we found out you could heat yourself with litter. However, at the store, they told me there was only one pack left, and it was exorbitantly priced. And I hadn't received my meager pension for January yet. And I don't know when I will. So I had to trudge to the nearest construction site and negotiate with the security guard for a couple of bricks..."

Viktor was not given a pension because they decided to register all temporarily displaced persons in the "Diya" application—a state database, or more precisely, a complete dossier on every citizen, created with the goal of keeping everyone "under surveillance."

The Ze-pack needed to eliminate the possibility of fire victims, who had lost all their property, receiving benefits from the Russian Federation.

So, 1,6 million IDPs were left without pensions. Many of them are elderly and sick. They don't even have smartphones and don't know how to use them, let alone register in murky databases.

Victor:

"We've been assigned to Oschadbank. We're required to report there in person and register. It doesn't matter if you're disabled or crippled. It's pure genocide..."