The plant that Orest helps run is owned and operated by DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine. Officials at the company, citing national-security concerns, asked me not to go into detail about the damage caused by the attack. (They also asked me not to disclose the plant’s exact location or the last names of employees.) What I can say is that, on a recent afternoon, as I walked around the second floor of the plant’s cavernous turbine hall with Orest and my interpreter, Yuliia Vallenfanh, I was struck by how quiet and cold it was. “If the generators were running, we wouldn’t be able to talk like this here,” Orest said. We were standing beside a fifteen-foot-tall turbine, our breath visible in the air. Orest, who has worked at the plant for almost twenty-eight years, said that the stillness got to him most during his night shifts. “I know what’s supposed to be running—what should be humming, what should be spinning,” he said. “The silence puts you on edge.”