The Washington Post online edition has published Friday a photo story of pictures, portraying the gas crisis in Bulgaria.

The pictures have been sent by the newspaper's Bulgarian correspondents and give readers an idea about the sadness and the misery gripping Bulgaria along with the severe cold and double digit negative lows.

Each of the pictures is accompanied by text explaining the devastating consequences for the country, resulting of the halt of Russian gas supplies.

"Natural gas supplies from Russia through Ukraine to Bulgaria and other parts of Europe remain cut off for a second day, leaving several countries scrambling to secure alternative energy sources to cope with a cold snap, with factories shut down, schools closed and tens of thousands of people scrambled to find other ways of keeping warm," the text reads.

The pictures portray a man chopping firewood near the Bulgarian capital Sofia, a nun carrying firewood in a monastery, also near Sofia, an old man looking in despair through a radiator of wood-burning stove and woman's hands warming near a wood-burning stove.

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