There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it

and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

so for that one change me a little.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

These days this is what nights in Ukraine sound like.

What the hell is this?

This snippet of video was shopped 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 Slade'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 power stations.

Because going after the grid punishes everyone.

The idea is to pressure the Ukrainian political leadership to give up or to compromise or to come to the tables or something.

It's to pressure the Ukrainian people to pressure their own leaders to stop this war.

It doesn't seem to be working as by the way these kinds of attacks rarely do.

The Germans fired V1 and V2 rockets in London during World War II. It actually stiffened British morale.

We now know that the American and British attacks on civilian targets in Nazi Germany didn't really do much to hasten the end of the war.

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