Sad news about Ukraine is full of sad news everywhere.

In Ukraine, the shortage of electricity is growing rapidly.

Today it is 27%.

In Kyiv, 55% of subscribers are in emergency shutdown mode.

And so on and so forth.

And this is not the end of the story, and not even the middle.

And it's not winter yet, and not even its beginning.

And no matter how much Kyiv reports about downed missiles, the missiles consistently reach and leave Ukraine without electricity, communications, and heat.

I can imagine how sad it is for those Russian people in Ukraine who have been waiting for our arrival all these years.

I corresponded and even met with dozens of them.

I know of hundreds or perhaps thousands of them.

But there are even more of them.

They lived underground, they arranged Russian readings, Russian concerts and even home exhibitions.

So as not to lose your Russianness.

To not forget your name.

And so they ask: “How can this be?

We waited - and now we are sitting without light and without heat.

Why did it happen?

The question "Why did this happen?"

we will leave outside the scope of this conversation.

Let's talk about something else.

We all saw how they took Mariupol.

They saw less, but sometimes they watched how they took Severodonetsk.

We hardly see, but we can guess how they take Bakhmut, aka Artyomovsk.

There are no cities left - that's how they take it.

The Russians are targeting thermal power plants and other infrastructure not because they want evil and cold.

It just became clear to everyone here what the Ukrainian authorities are capable of in order not to surrender the city.

She is able to drive and drive troops there, who first sit on the upper floors, then on the lower ones, because there are no upper ones, then in the basements, and then they are hollowing out trenches and building fortifications in the ruins.

As a result, people in Ukraine have the following choice: you can sit in the city without water and light.

And you can sit in a city where there is no more water, light and city.

No other choice is left.

It must be admitted that Moscow diligently offered negotiations to everyone it could, and even to those who could not.

She made such “goodwill gestures” that even the most stupid guards do not remember aloud.

The result is null.

Moscow is offered: “Leave Donetsk, Lugansk, Berdyansk, Gurzuf and Simferopol, and then we’ll talk.”

Russia, in response, can either demolish entire cities, or turn off the lights from time to time.

Suddenly, when it turns on, something will change - this is how Moscow thinks in quiet hope.

Nothing will change.

There will be no more cities taken almost without destruction, like Kherson.

Now all cities, including Kherson, if they are taken, will turn into ruins.

Therefore, the only hope is that violent shutdowns will reach those negative levels that the Ukrainian administration will lose the ability to administer, and the Ukrainian army will forget how to govern itself.

Or, we repeat, your lights will be turned off.

Or you have everything turned off.

Kyiv is playing out a global tragedy.

"Not to be or not to be at all."

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.