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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk

Grim winter looms as wartime Ukraine braces for infrastructure attacks

FILE PHOTO: A destroyed building is seen in Saltivka neighbourhood of Kharkiv, Ukraine, September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

In an abandoned tower block damaged by Russian shelling in Ukraine's second city, Olga Kobzar plans to tough out winter for as long as she can without electricity, water and central heating by lighting the gas stove in her kitchen for warmth.

The 70-year-old, who lives alone in a devastated district of northern Kharkiv where the temperature can fall to -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit), is at the sharp end of what Ukrainian officials say will be the grimmest winter in decades.

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