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In Ukraine's Kharkiv region, engineers begin reconnecting energy grid in freezing conditions

Villages in the Kharkiv region suffered heavy bombardment. Now engineers are working in freezing conditions to restore power. © Screengrab FRANCE 24

In the Kharkhiv region, it is only now – months of intense Russian bombardment down the line – that Ukrainian electrical engineers can begin reconnecting the power grid. FRANCE 24's Andrew Hilliar, Elena Volochine and Abdelkader Dermas visited a village near the front line where barely a single home was left undamaged during the fighting.

Barely 10km from the Russian border, these electrical engineers are trying to repair a substation that was damaged in a bombardment.

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