Spending her vacation in Ukraine’s West, Hoshovska, a communications manager, knew from her Kyiv building’s group chat that municipal engineers had turned off heating as the temperature sank. She opted not to return, instead temporarily moving with her young son to her native city of Rivne. While power and heating supplies there are extremely limited, conditions are slightly better than in the capital, she said. Power outages, for example, are more predictable and follow a schedule.