Burdened with the fighting and frequent Russian attacks on the country’s power system, the Ukrainian government is straining to carry out the most urgent repairs to civilian residences.

When Russian troops crossed from Belarus into Ukraine in late February, pressing toward Kyiv, they were ordered to block and destroy ‘nationalist resistance.’

Ukrainian authorities ask citizens not to return home yet and further tax the country’s battered energy infrastructure, and Western countries consider how to rebuild Ukraine when the war ends.

Ukrainian officials say the diffuse strikes on power plants and civilian areas made no ‘practical military sense.’