It looks like "Project Ukraine" is going to be a "bust" - and if we have societal breakdown in the inevitable poverty and economic breakdowns which seem likely to follow, we will be in a lot of trouble.
--------------------------------- My mother told me the Great Depression was something you only read about if you had a job. I suspect that reliable electricity would be among the first casualties of an economic breakdown that affects its maintenance.
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Here hurricanes and ice storms can shut down the power for over a week. The roads can be cleared for 4 wheel drive but that doesn't help if the stores are closed. Before Covid I planned for a week, during it I extended to two weeks without resupply by adding a 60 liter DC powered freezer that can run on solar + battery power, recharged during overcast with a small generator for about an hour a day. I have firewood for heat and cooking and don't really need more than food, preferably fresh or frozen though I could live on dry and canned if desperate or a college student again.
The freezer has an AC to DC supply which I rigged to draw only enough electric grid power to fill in for decreased or absent solar and keep the battery float charged during multi day overcast. The simple non-engineered way would be to swap the power plugs as needed.
A 1000W Honda generator is enough for my use with a battery and inverter providing AC fridge starting current, which the Honda alone may not, and it's light enough to carry outside on slippery footing to a small clearing in the snow/ice to operate. I made a pressure fuel tank adapter that lets it be fully drained to store indoors, and easily primed. As usual I bought the generator second hand and running poorly.
For hot showers I heat the water on the wood stove and spray it from garden pump sprayers modified with kitchen spray hoses. A two gallon tank is enough for a submarine shower and not too awkward to handle in the tub without falling, I heat a second as a backup for running out or a leak. They also make good emergency fire extinguishers.