Borodyanka Rebuilds: Residents Battle Cold, Costs, and Challenges

Borodyanka's residents, rebuilding after Russian bombardment, face winter with slow repairs, high costs, and resilient spirits, striving for stability and better living conditions.

BORODYANKA, UKRAINE—Halina Egorovna has placed every bucket, pot, and pan she owns around the floor of her one-bedroom apartment. Sheets of plastic line her walls and her couch, but the floor is still soaked. A cold autumn rain drenched Kyiv Oblast the previous night, pouring through the holes in her building’s roof and leaking into her apartment.

Halina…