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The first systematic attacks against Ukraine's energy network began in late 2022, causing widespread power outages and plunging millions of people into darkness and cold during freezing temperatures.

The 70-year-old pope, dressed in white, told the group that "when the magic light of cinema illuminates the darkness, it simultaneously ignites the eyes of the soul."

Although a menacing observer lurks in the darkness, the couple feels protected, submerged beneath the wall of clouds, which roll like white waves against a huge, indigo sky.

“There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how love could release us all from the power of darkness. Our love is stronger than death,” she says through tears.

He and an accomplice cut the power to the surrounding area, creating a diversion that allowed two others to raid the building under the cover of darkness.