(ANSA-AFP) - KYIV, NOV 25 - Nearly half of Kyiv residents
were still without electricity on Friday as engineers battled to
restore services two days after Russian strikes hammered the
country's energy grid. Systematic and targeted Russian attacks
for weeks have brought Ukraine's energy infrastructure to its
knees as the country careens towards a freezing winter, spurring
fears of a health crisis and a further exodus, nine months into
war. Municipal workers struggled Friday to reconnect essential
services such as heat and water as temperatures in Kyiv
approached freezing and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly
visited to announce a new aid package. "Half of consumers are
still without electricity," Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. "A
third of houses in Kyiv already have heating and specialists
continue to restore it." (ANSA-AFP).
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