Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been without electricity for weeks. Vladimir Putin’s (70) troops repeatedly attack civilian power plants and heating plants.
Some of them can temporarily warm up in the so-called “points of indomitability” and charge their computers or mobile phones. Others look for other alternatives to everyday life.
Two propagandists are now ridiculing this struggle for survival on Russian state television – the duo Alexei Kazakov and Yevgeniya Petrukhina in the program “Vesti with Alexey Kazakov” on the Rossiya 24 channel.
Hair drying over gas stove
Also featured is a man shaving next to an ATM in a banking hall and a woman drying her hair upside down over a gas stove. “This is what it looks like when you have a date in 30 minutes. That way you may have no hair at all,” Petrukhina jokes.
Another shot shows a kitchen pot being heated with candles. «A candlelit dinner, almost romantic. But you have to warm up the food for about an hour,” jokes the moderator.
Poisoning from generators
Another problem is the purchased generators. According to the moderators, anyone lucky enough to get their hands on one will have to chain it up. After all, thieves are lurking everywhere, they say.
Surveillance camera footage shows two people carrying a blanket-wrapped generator out of a doorway. “If it continues like this, what else will be stolen? Wood? Generators break down », the moderator asks jokingly. The generators would cause more and more people to get carbon monoxide poisoning, the program continues.
Ukrainian media also report this. The accidents, some of which are fatal, happen because people misuse the devices and place them directly in the home. Several cases of poisoning have become public in the Kiev region, Andriy Nebutov, head of the national police of the Kiev region, wrote on Telegram.
Energy disaster due to “Zelensky’s stubbornness”
Russian television blames the Ukrainian authorities for the situation. “These are now quasi-death generators. But that is not an argument for the authorities in Kiev,” says Petrukhina, speculating whether the government will even allow people to leave the country if there is no electricity at all.
Her moderator colleague Kazakov also blames President Volodymyr Zelensky (44) for the situation in Ukraine. Of photos from Odessa, where people are charging their mobile phones en masse in a room, he says: “On the one hand, the scene is quite sad, but on the other hand, it is also very legitimate, because Zelensky’s stubbornness has already led to a clear energy disaster in this and other places.”