Life in Kyiv when night falls and the lights go out – “Alone in the dark…”

The Kyiv it was once a thriving capital of eastern Europe, but its decision of Russia to invade her Ukraine has turned it into a ghost town, with 3.5 million inhabitants fighting daily for their survival. The continuous missile attacks have destroyed many networks electricity and as soon as night falls and the temperature is below zero, the real problems begin.

Doctors operating with a lens in their hands, the elderly and injured exposed to the bitter cold, but also households with food shortages, are the elements that make up a dystopian, but real picture, as reported by New York Times.

So when the spotlight stops falling on the Ukrainian capital, the images with the heroic fighters who are in every square with a gun in hand, they are replaced by everyday scared people who try to live at the pace before the Russian invasion.

Also, the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, Herman Halushchenkostated that now “you don’t think about fun, work, or anything that really brings you pleasure. Instead, you think common things about survival. It all boils down to that.”

In fact, the mayor of Kiev and former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko emphasized that “you feel like you’re stranded on an island. In an instant you have no power. Not only that. You have no water. If you want to take a shower, no way. You don’t have heating. Your mobile is not working, there is no connection. You are alone, in the dark».

Among the residents of Kyiv, however, there are also some people who do not lose their optimism, such as Dmytro I. Ostapenko, former Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine and current director of the National Philharmonic. “This is our front line“, he said and added about the work of his orchestra, that “we work to warm people’s soulsso they can find comfort here in this extremely difficult time. So that they can believe in themselves».