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Kyiv suffers worst winter yet amid continued drone and ballistic missile attacks
(uk.news.yahoo.com)
I hope Klychko will not just receive generators, but focus on actual resilience improvements. Centralized electricity generation (thermal and nuclear) is quite vulnerable, we need to deploy lots of small-scale wind and solar ASAP, widely, preferably from European sources because China is financing the Russian war effort. Elevators in every tower block need to be retrofitted with backup batteries, subsidized up to 100% in low-income neighborhoods where lots of older and disabled people live. Public transit financing from the budget must increase at least threefold, through things like a progressive tax reform and cutting down the privacy-negating IT superstructure creep, as the situation with overcrowding and inability to use electric vehicles has severely worsened; it sucks to wait an hour for a bus in freezing cold and be unable to enter because standing people have squeezed into every cubic centimeter.