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This winter, the capital’s Troyeshchyna district is living in a mode that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago. After massive attacks on the energy infrastructure, the district is regularly left without electricity, heating, and water — sometimes for several hours, sometimes for a day or longer. The outage schedules are practically non-functional, the temperature in the apartments is rapidly dropping, and residents are forced to look for ways to survive in the city’s cold, realizing that there may be no electricity or heating for weeks. Severe frosts are about to return to Ukraine, and the Troyes region risks facing a new challenge — freezing sewers. The head of the Desnyanskaya RDA, Maksym Bakhmatov, warned: if the sewers in high-rise buildings freeze, people will have to equip cesspools in their yards. His words seemed like an exaggeration to many, but the events of recent days have forced the residents of the Troyes region to look at such scenarios without irony. At the same time, some of the houses have already been connected to heating. This constantly adds challenges — it tears out old pipes, but at the same time it gives hope for warmth and relief. Between these two poles — the fear of complete collapse and the joy of warm radiators — the daily life of the residents of the district passes. dev.ua talked to IT workers and a digital specialist who, despite the harsh conditions of survival, do not plan to leave their native microdistrict for now and are adapting to the harsh realities. About cold apartments, dark entrances, electric heaters, sleeping bags, mutual aid and creative ways of survival — further.

UNIT.City — the largest innovation park in Ukraine — has been preparing for this winter since 2022. In an interview, we tell you how 4,000 people work in stable conditions even during blackouts, how much autonomy costs, and why residents sometimes spend the night in offices.

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Blackouts lasting several days, -25 degrees below zero, constant shelling — Ukrainians are currently experiencing the most difficult winter since the full-scale invasion. In such times, attention should be paid to the mental state no less than the physical, and video games will help in this, as one of the best methods of escapism. We have prepared a selection of games about survival in extreme temperatures with today's realities, some of which can even be played on a smartphone.