Men connect a homemade light with a battery to illuminate the pitch ahead of a soccer game during a blackout in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. For soccer lovers in Ukraine, Russia's invasion and the devastation it has wrought have created uncertainties about both playing the sport and watching it. For Ukrainians these days, soccer trails well behind mere survival in the order of priorities.
Workers Alexander, 41, and Semen, 40, dig out a tractor tire from the rubble of a destroyed storage building at a grain processing center so they can use it for repairs even as their town continues to take incoming shelling in Siversk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022.
A woman walks past the debris of the destroyed house after a recent Russian air strike in Chasiv Yar on November 27. Shelling by Russian forces struck several areas in eastern and southern Ukraine as utility crews continued a scramble to restore power, water, and heating.
A view of damaged electrical wires after Ukrainian army retaken control from the Russian forces in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on November 27, 2022.
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People use their mobile phone lamps to look at items at a sporting goods store during a power outage, after critical civil infrastructure was hit by a Russian missile attacks in Ukraine, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, November 26, 2022.