How Russia is weaponizing winter in Ukraine
By DW
08 December 2022 |
2:50 pm
Russia is expanding its attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. At the start of winter, there are hundreds of thousands of people without electricity or heating. DW reporter Jan-Phillipp Scholz met some of them.
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