were busy restoring the electricity supply. “We’re trying to help people,” one shouted, speaking from the top of a damaged pole. Russia’s invasion left 1.5 million Ukrainians without power. Emergency crews have recently reconnected more than 980,000 households to the grid,Farther north in Chernihiv, residents were celebrating Easter after a traumatic 25-day siege. Russian forces advancing from Belarus bombarded the city. Several hundred people died.
Vyacheslav said the city’s internet and electricity supply were back but there was a shortage of glass to repair broken windows, and a lot of damage. In the village of Ivankiva most houses were trashed, as if by tornado. One resident, Yulia – who declined to give her surname – said Russian soldiers killed her brother-in-law and her neighbour, a veteran from the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The soldiers lived in her house for 25 days, she said, taking over her bedroom. She and her 13-year-old son, Zheniya, slept by in the candle-lit basement.
Over in the village church the priest Georgy Petrosuk was preparing for his first post-occupation prayer service. He said a team of volunteers had cleared up. He was hoping to complete the dusting in time for Easter, he added, as he frantically wiped down icons and pictures of the holy family with a wet cloth. Someone had peppered the building with machine gun rounds. His parishioners had fitted a new door, he said.
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