#Power to the people movie tv#

It’s a plain, simple and terrifying thought. People dying alone of heat stroke in rooms with no air-conditioning, often in old historic buildings with copper roofs. After the summer of 2003, the hottest on record in Europe at that time, bodies were being removed from apartment blocks for months afterwards. Some kinds of dying don’t make newspaper headlines. The article makes for chilling reading, but is lightened by the many random acts of kindness along the way that helped the remaining family members survive. Add to that people firing missiles at you and you can see the problems. You could soak it overnight if you had water, preferably clean, but with no power, pumping stations stop. You may have bought a bag of rice when the war began, but eating it when you can’t cook it is a problem. How many people with minor injuries have died in Ukraine as a result of missing these mundane “little” things? You can’t sterilise things with boiling water if you can’t boil water. You take it for granted when you have it, but when you don’t its absence looms large. “We don’t have antiseptic,” Natalya told him.Įlectricity is similar to antiseptic. When their apartment block was hit by bombs, killing a nephew and injuring all of them, Natalya and her husband Roma and their three children fled in the only direction they could, in a complex situation about which they had little knowledge east.Ī doctor told them to keep their wounds sterile with antiseptic…. It was March 15 before the family got hold of a radio and more news, rather than just word of mouth.

#Power to the people movie tv#

Soon there was no internet, mobile phone, or TV reception. On the 2nd of March, the electricity cut out. Geoff Russell explains the latest wild panic over the ‘nuclear threat’.ġ843 Magazine contained a graphic account of the Balabas family’s suffering in the Ukraine war in its article: “East of Mariupol: what happened to the Ukrainians who fled to Russia?”. The war in Ukraine is going to kill us all, courtesy of an explosion at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.