3 million Kyiv residents are preparing for the most severe winter in almost 5 years of war. Some are already thinking about leaving: the number of empty apartments for rent in Kyiv has increased by almost two-thirds since August, and rent is getting more expensive in western Ukraine.

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Expert Oleksandr Kharchenko says that due to accumulated damage, the winter will go in a vicious circle: shutdown → emergency repairs → restoration → shutdown again.

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and occasionally russians post videos hunting them down with drones... Before long, buildings become ruins as the front line moves in. No one fights the fires anymore. What were once high-rise apartments and offices are now just scattered rubble, reeking of smoke and death.

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Yet the city clings to life a little while, until it doesn't, until it can no longer. ​Those cities, those cold corpses of concrete giants, lie scattered across the east. They now form a desert visible from space.

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They lie there, the hollow windows of shattered homes staring up at the sky like empty eye sockets. Perhaps they would ask "why" if they could, but there is no one left to answer.

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