Since Kyiv's authorities started turning off communal hot water supplies last month to save natural gas, people with their own boilers have found unwashed friends on the doorstep armed with a towel and a bar of soap.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Bloomberg: May I borrow your shower? Ukraine braces for winter cold
Ukrainians are resorting to \u201cwash visits\u201d along with school closures and DIY insulation as the nation of 45 million braces for a winter without enough gas. Authorities, already fighting an insurgency in the east, are scrambling to build stockpiles in a country where temperatures can drop to 20 below zero Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit) after Russia, the main supplier, stopped shipments in June.
