Life on the ground: Russian power play plunging Ukraine into darkness

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From sudden power outages to internet blackouts, to major surgeries made increasingly precarious, life for Ukrainians is being twisted yet further out of shape by Russia's targeting of their energy network. By Robert Mulhern, Ukraine War Diaries producer SEVA KOSHEL is a 40-year-old CEO turned military volunteer from Dnipro. He's been running supplies to frontline soldiers in eastern Ukraine for more than six months. Click to subscribe to Ukraine War Diaries wherever you get your podcasts On Wednesday, he found himself driving from Sweden, in a utility truck packed with medical kits bound for the frontline. But when Seva crossed into Ukraine, and night closed in, he felt a deep sense of foreboding as the road ahead grew increasingly dark. "When I was passing western regions of the country in this car that I was driving from Sweden, I have seen whole cities and whole villages without electricity," he explains in the latest edition of Sky News' Ukraine War Diaries podcast. "And I was tol