XPost: misc.survivalism   
   From: Colon.Powell@tutanato.com   
      
   On 1/17/2026 12:47 PM, Colon Powell wrote:   
   > January 17, 2026   
   > Dark Kiev   
   > The electricity and heat supply in Ukraine has stopped in large parts of   
   > the country. Kiev had already been on scheduled blackouts where groups   
   > of consumers received for example four hours of electricity to then be   
   > cutoff for eight hours. That scheduling has ended. The blackout has   
   > become permanent.   
      
   An update on Ukraine. The same Polar Vortex that is freezing much of   
   North America is also impacting Ukraine:   
      
   Ukraine – The Mood Is Changing – Pep Songs Are No Longer Welcome   
   There are first signs that the people of Ukraine are changing their   
   attitude towards the war.   
      
   In Winter Strikes Kiev I explored how Russian strikes against   
   infrastructure in Ukraine would change the mood of the population:   
      
   During the war the parts of the Ukrainian population that were not   
   directly involved in fighting seemed to have little interest in what was   
   happening. There was still a lot of nightlife in Kiev, all goods were   
   available and even the few short interruptions of electricity were not   
   much to bother with.   
      
   This will now change. Electricity is off for most of the time. Shops are   
   closing because running business on generators is unprofitable. Local   
   public transport is mostly down. Longer range tail transport is   
   interrupted. Apartments are unlivable. The consequences of the war have   
   become personal.   
      
   This will change the mood even of those who want to prolong the war. The   
   numbers of those willing to accept the loss of territory in exchange for   
   peace will rise.   
      
   After a while a change of policies will follow from this.   
      
   Last night another wave of missile and drone strikes hit electricity and   
   heating infrastructure in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities. It caused   
   sever additional damage:   
      
   The strike on energy infrastructure left consumers in Kyiv and the   
   surrounding region, as well as in Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Rivne,   
   and Kharkiv oblasts, without power, the Energy Ministry said.   
      
   Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said that more than   
   335,000 people lost electricity in Kyiv. At around 10 a.m. local time,   
   power had been restored to 162,000 homes, while about 173,000 remained   
   without service.   
      
   In Kyiv, 5,635 buildings remain without heating, or about 46% of the   
   city’s housing stock.   
   …   
   The right bank of Kyiv, the western part of the city, is receiving water   
   at reduced pressure, while about 3,500 homes on the left bank remain   
   completely without water, according to the deputy minister.   
      
   Heat has been restored to about 1,600 buildings. The other 4,000 will   
   have to freeze at least through the night.   
      
   The people in Ukraine are now changing their mood and attitude towards   
   the war. Until recently many were still optimistic hoping that the war   
   would have some positive outcome. It was patriotic (and did not cost   
   anything) to have a positive attitude. Ukrainian media, largely under   
   censorship, and Ukrainian artist supported this.   
      
   One such artist is the famous pop singer Tina Karol (Wiki, website,   
   Youtube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter   
      
   Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman, aka Tina Karol, supports the war and   
   regularly visits troops like the ‘nationalist’ Kartia brigade near the   
   frontline. She is giving pep talks and performs for the soldiers.   
      
   Three days ago she published another of her motivational pep songs   
   (Youtube, TikTok).   
      
   But this time it was no longer welcome by the public and caused a severe   
   backlash (machine translation]:   
      
   Ukrainian pop singer Tina Karol has been criticized and ridiculed in   
   social networks for several days because of a song about the lack of light.   
      
   The celebrity posted in TikTok a video shot in the semi-darkness, in   
   which she sits with a cup in her hands and does not quite open her mouth   
   to her own track with the following words::   
      
   We don’t have light, but we do have heat.   
   We don’t have heat, but we have goodness.   
   We don’t have water, but we have us –   
   We are together, we are a family.   
   We don’t have light, but we do have heat.   
   And we will defeat any evil,   
   Because we love each other   
   And that’s all, that’s all.   
      
   Many users record their ironic videos for this track and leave negative   
   comments:   
      
   “We have no electricity, because the deputies stole the loot. They   
   raised the excise tax and closed the border. I don’t have any water, I   
   can’t flush it down the toilet, but as long as we are entertained by   
   such “singers”, I understand that this is not all.”   
   “We don’t have electricity, but the deputies do. Men are packed into   
   cars without permission, but we have the go-ahead. The state gave a shit   
   about us, but we’re a family. Thank you for the propaganda song!”   
   “Tinochka Karol, it’s just a mockery of people to release such shit.”   
   “How to warm a baby in high-rise buildings when there is no light for 6   
   hours, and the apartment in some strange way does not have time to warm   
   up for those one and a half hours for which the lights are turned on?”   
   The critic became so harsh that Tina Karol felt the need (vid) to apologize:   
      
   In recent days , a wave of criticism has rained down on Tina Karol’s   
   spirit-taking song in social networks with the words that even if there   
   is no light and heat, Ukrainians “have good”, and evil will be defeated.   
   The wave was so big that the singer had to apologize for singing the song.   
      
   In an apology, the singer assured that she was “as much in context as   
   possible” and wanted to unite people, support them with creativity in a   
   difficult time. She assured that the video is not “zakazuha and manual   
   from the authorities.”   
      
   “I saw a guy’s song and decided to sing it again, because I’ve been   
   supporting people with my creativity all my life,” she said.   
      
   The writers at Strana analyze the swing of mood expressed in this   
   (machine translation):   
      
   Previously, such songs and simple appeals to stop being discouraged and   
   believe in victory were constantly heard in response to the problems of   
   wartime, but the reaction to them, as a rule, was different: basically,   
   people supported this trend, and those who did not fit in and continued   
   to talk about their difficult situation were censured, or even recorded   
   in the fifth column.   
   …   
   But the situation in the energy sector has sharply worsened due to   
   Russian strikes – residents of the country are sitting without   
   electricity and heat.   
      
   And when they once again decided to cheer them up in the usual way,   
   singing a life-affirming song about good and evil, the reaction was   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)