Ukraine Residents Battle With Water Scarcity

Residents of Ukraine’s bombed capital clutched empty bottles in search of water and crowded into cafés for power and warmth, switching defiantly into survival mode after new Russian missile strikes plunged the city and much of the country into the dark.

In the city of three million, some residents resorted to collecting rainwater from drainpipes, as repair teams laboured to reconnect supplies.

Friends and family members exchanged messages to find out who had electricity and water back. Some had one but not the other.

The aerial onslaught on Ukraine’s power grid left many with neither.