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These days, this is what nights in Ukraine sound like.

Snippet a video, where shot by a journalist named Liz Cookman, she is reporting from the city of

Deneepro. In places like Deneepro, the city center has gone dark because of power cuts,

and the temperature is hovering somewhere around freezing. The lack of heat may not be the worst

of it though. Elevators are out in urban high rises. In some buildings, you cannot even flush

the toilet. In fact, Russia's bombing has left Ukraine's energy system on the brink of collapse.

And Slate's Fred Kaplan says, that's all part of Russia's plan here.

Look, they're losing on the battlefield, military on, military. And so when that happens,

they go after the population. They commit what's essentially war crimes.

And what is the most vulnerable thing in Ukraine, in the winter? It's it's power stations.

Because going after the grid punishes everyone.

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