In these words, an energy worker named Andriy, who is in charge of fixing and maintaining the electric supply for DTEK in the Kyiv region, likened his band of electrical workers to a family to the journalists of The Wall Street Journal.

Emergency teams risk their lives and brave subfreezing temperatures to keep the power on.

The workers clambering over the charred remains of an electricity transformer at a Ukrainian power station are fighting on one of the war’s most important fronts: protecting Ukraine’s power grid.

“We are a battalion of electricians,” said Volodymyr Ovdei, a 64-year-old worker.

Learn more here – The Wall Street Journal.