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A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now. It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold) This crime is being deliberately committed by Russia. In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide. Under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, one of the defining acts of genocide is: "Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." Many Ukrainian cities - Kyiv foremost among them - have been without electricity, heating, and water for the second week in a row, amid severe frosts. What does this mean? It means people are being condemned to death by Russia. This is what is happening: ▪️ Elderly people cannot leave their apartments to buy food or water because elevators do not work - or because they are physically unable to walk down the stairs; ▪️ No communication: mobile phones are dead, there is no way to call for help or an ambulance; ▪️ Sick people cannot use life-sustaining medical equipment because there is no electricity at home; ▪️ Mothers of small kids carry their children and strollers up staircases in high-rise buildings - along with water and food; ▪️ No hot meals and no possibility to cook food at home; ▪️ Sewer system failures, creating critical and dangerous conditions; ▪️ Illness caused by extreme cold and the inability to stay warm; ▪️ Children cannot attend schools because there is no heating. Distance learning is also impossible without electricity; ▪️ Kindergartens are closed, mothers cannot work, earn money to feed their children; ▪️ Stray animals are freezing to death on the streets; ▪️ Even pets are dying from the cold - parrots, aquarium fish, animals kept in terrariums; ▪️ Animals in zoos are freezing; ▪️ Collections of rare plants in Kyiv’s botanical gardens have frozen and died; ▪️ Small businesses are earning nothing, forced to spend money on generators and fuel - causing direct losses to the economy; ▪️ Severe harm to the environment and public health due to the constant operation of massive numbers of generators; ▪️ Public transport functions far worse due to power outages; electric transport does not operate at all, leaving people unable to reach work, doctors, or essential services; ▪️ Burst pipes and freezing temperatures are destroying homes, making them uninhabitable; ▪️ Hospitals are forced to cancel planned surgeries, operating in emergency mode and at full capacity; ▪️ Rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout are sharply increasing. Russia wants to make large Ukrainian cities uninhabitable. This is a humanitarian catastrophe deliberately caused by Russia.