We will survive this winter…

I guess you can call me lucky. As it turns out. I grew up in a small town in the Vinnytsia region in the early 90s... I know well what it is like to have no water, electricity, sewage, and sometimes even food...

We were lucky, we had a well and a stove. And firewood and coal. The stove provided heat and you could cook hot food on it. I remember the long dark winter evenings near that stove with my parents. Their conversations and eating of sunflower seeds…

As well as buckets of water, the luxury of taking a bath and the constant sifting of burnt coal.

It is likely that the same evenings will soon be waiting for us... And there is little comfort in this.

I keep thinking how many people will leave Ukraine this winter. And how many will probably never return. I think of those who believed and returned this fall. Sent their children to school. And now they sit there for hours in the basements and wait for the longest winter vacation. Children of war...

And this is Russia’s goal. Depopulation and scorching Ukrainian ground according to the principle "if we cannot have this, nobody can."

I also think that it is extremely difficult for people at the front line. In the destroyed Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Luhansk region. It is cold. No communication, generators, Starlinks. Not even a stove. And it is not about comfort, but work and survival. Survival of the country.

It so happens that everyone must think about the comfort, or rather the survival of civilians for themselves. Although such a scenario was expected, I even wrote about it here a few months ago.

Now we need to take care of the basic necessities (I am well aware of them since childhood):

- drinking water;

- storage for non-drinking water;

- radio on batteries;

- non-perishable foods - various canned goods;

- warm clothes, blankets and maybe a tent (it retains heat very well)

- solar-powered charger for a smartphone.

Ideally, a place with a fire, such as a stove or an oven. Wood. And a generator with reserves of gasoline or diesel. You can also have a gas container with a portable stove. Battery on solar panels, but this is virtually a luxury. For communication, some order Starlink, but this is a double luxury, since for its operation you need either a battery or a generator.

We will survive this winter.

And once spring and summer come, we will see a boom in demand for heat pumps and solar panels with batteries. Because this is a security issue now. This is how energy modernization and power independence will happen...

There will be independence in general. For which Ukrainians pay almost the highest price in the world... The price of blood, sweat and tears. The price of suffering and at the same time the joy of victories and mutual help and support. At the price of realizing just how much we are capable of.

We will survive this winter...

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About the author: Victoria Siumar, a journalist and media expert.

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