Ariana Gic
Independent Political Analyst
York University – Osgoode Hall Law School Direct Initiative International Centre for Ukraine
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jan 13, 2026
After yet another Russian attack on infrastructure, an unimaginable 70% of Kyiv is without electricity, heat, or water. Temperatures are plummeting to -22C. Russian genocide of Ukrainians is creating a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Why aren’t we helping defend the skies?
Russia has bombarded Ukrainian power infrastructure to the point that the Deputy Energy Minister has announced that they don’t know when the electricity will be restored. This is truly a catastrophic situation. Moscow is working to freeze Ukrainians to death. This is GENOCIDE.
Kyiv is home to approximately 3 million. Russia has plunged over 2 million Ukrainians in this ONE CITY ALONE into conditions designed to bring about their death. Moscow is working to exterminate Ukrainians. It is GENOCIDE and we have a legal duty to stop, not observe, it!!
DAYS without electricity, heat or water, and in the middle of extraordinarily cold temperatures will cause a mass death by freezing, mass exodus of civilians from the city creating yet another wave of displaced people and refugees, and totally DESTROY the infrastructure.
I don’t want to hear about the “remarkable resilience of Ukrainian people.” Ukrainians may be incredible in their resilience, but they are HUMAN. They cannot withstand the conditions designed to cause their death. And we are not supposed to allow it to happen!!!
To the leaders of NATO nations, I implore you to do the right thing!! Stop watching the ongoing Russian genocide of Ukrainians unfold! Start FULFILLING THE LEGAL OBLIGATIONS WE HAVE TO STOP GENOCIDE! The cowardice of confronting Russia is inexcusable. We WILL be next anyway!
I am losing any last remaining shreds of faith I had in humanity. Our rhetoric about supporting Ukraine is meaningless. “Supporting Ukraine” is not about providing power banks AFTER genocidal attacks, but about PREVENTING them AND STOPPING RUSSIAN EXTERMINATION OF UKRAINIANS!
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I concur 100%.
“Supporting Ukraine” is not about providing power banks AFTER genocidal attacks, but about PREVENTING them AND STOPPING RUSSIAN EXTERMINATION OF UKRAINIANS!” So so sadly true. Who can’t know this?
Surely frostbite is an issue but only for the suriviros!
Meanwhile Mark Rutte, traitor to civilisation, is calling Donald trump daddy. Civilised countries have to act independently of dud organisations, like NATO, not hide behind them.
Pathetic NATO – only used to hide behind – was supposed to resist the maurading Soviets and can’t resist a whim from daddy.
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I want to make this abundantly clear: There is NO reason Ukrainians should be suffering this genocidal hell. The free world has the power to help protect them. We are CHOOSING not to uphold international law and our obligations under it to Ukraine. So Ukrainians suffer and die.
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It is shameful and counter to what we should stand for! Ukraine is the front line against the savages in the kremlin, and the only defence that we have right now.
Our every inaction is a great evil as well.
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Olena Kozii
Ukrainian Journalist | Lecturer | ICWR Fellow | Rising Leaders Fellow Aspen Institute UK
Institute of Cyber Warfare Research
London, England, United Kingdom
Ukrainians need generators. More generators. Urgently. People are freezing. Photo: Kyiv residents nowadays. If you can help with generators (supply, funding, useful connections), please comment here or message me.
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Please advise if there are organizations in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia area that are open to picking up brand new gas generators and ship to Ukraine. I have unused champion gas generator available to donate.
Dear Slava Boyarsky, I have sent you a friend request so we can continue our chat in private. Quick summary: Yes, our partners in the U.S. can pick up generators as soon as possible. Now they are asking when they can pick them up, exactly where they are, which type of generator, and how many. Thank you so much for your help 🙏🏻
Raymond Foss
Freezing in the Darkness – v4
Russia must be stopped,
their goal of death, of genocide,
erasure, destruction of Ukraine,
their cruelty on full display,
callous indifference to life,
to humanity, to the innocents…
Freezing in the darkness,
A long, brutal winter is upon us…
The temperatures have dropped
with no heat, no power, nothing truly,
but the ancient courage, the resolve,
of these brave, courageous people…
Millions in the dark, in the cold,
bitter temperatures plummeting,
lost in the geopolitics of the moment,
delays, hesitations, fears not to
torment the oppressor, the archers,
when the people stand in the breach…
Resolve their only hope, the unity of these people,
weathering on together, alone in their struggle,
because this is a fight for their nation’s survival…
The cold, nature itself, their enemy, the challenge,
because the world waited to assist them,
to fight against the face of evil…
The world must again unite to aid in recovery,
to restore what was destroyed, to prepare
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/freezing-in-darkness-v4.html
The rest of Europe is bickering and crying about small, pathetic issues while the Ukrainians are in the cold and darkness and stoically fighting the world’s largest terrorist. Think about it for a moment.
“I am losing any last remaining shreds of faith I had in humanity.”
Me too Ariana.
The process began when I heard about Bucha.
Yet incredibly, the putinaZis have been repeating Bucha ever since and still feel complete impunity.
So vile are they that they celebrate every child murder and every atrocity on their sewer-like social media.