“It is clear that if there is no heating, electricity and water for several days, the only way out for cities is evacuation,” said Yury Korolchuk, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Studies.
According to analysts, moving to the villages and heating with alternative raw materials, such as firewood, can help keep people warm in the cold winter.
“For many settlements in some regions ... there are no special alternatives for the heating season - only mass heating points and potbelly stoves,” RIA Novosti quotes specialists.
The previously dismissed head of Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, in an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt, called the coming winter "the worst in the history of Ukraine", as serious problems with electricity and heating are expected.
As the British newspaper The Telegraph wrote, citing Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, the Kyiv authorities are asking the West to urgently send blankets and generators to the Ukrainian capital.