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Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter

FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Fatima Ramic, with her daughter Alma, right and niece Elma, back to camera, tends to the grave of her 8-year-old son, Alija, who died the previous year from medical complications in Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on Jan. 5, 1995. The mother says her son is a victim of the war due to inadequate facilities and medicines available to the sick and injured of the Bosnian capital. (AP Photo/Rikard Larma, File) A man pushes his wheelbarrow loaded with supplies across an intersection frequently fired upon by sniper near the Miljacka River in Sarajevo on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, as cold and snow returned to the besieged Bosnian capital. In the background is a destroyed bus station. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss) FILE - A father and his son stand in front of a destroyed store warming themselves up on an open fire in downtown Sarajevo, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992. For nearly four years, Sarajevo’s roughly 350,000 residents were trapped and faced daily shelling and sniper attacks. Cut off from regular access to electricity, heat and water, they survived on limited humanitarian aid from the United Nations while drinking from wells and foraging for food. (AP Photo/Hansi Krauss, File) FILE - Smoke billows from a power infrastructure following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) A fire-resistant brick heats on the stove in Larysa Shevtsova's home in in Kherson, Ukraine as the family tries to warm the house on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) Larysa Shevtsova pours a cup of tea in her kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine, while a fire-resistant brick heats on the stove on Nov. 26, 2022. When the rectangular block was hot enough, it was carried carefully into the living room and set on top of a Soviet-era space heater that no longer worked. Shevtsova, her husband and two sons, one of them three years old, huddled around the brick for warmth that would last for about 30 minutes. “We use this method to heat the room,” Shevtsova said. “Before that we just froze.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick) FILE - A woman crosses the street during snowfall, as power outages continue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have left millions of civilians in the cold and the dark as temperatures plummet. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter