Winter's first strike heralds beginning of cold war in Ukraine
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Against the backdrop of yet more barrages from the air, Ukrainian war diarists believe they have the resolve to survive winter. By Robert Mulhern, Ukraine War Diaries producer Late on Tuesday afternoon, Ilyas Verdiev looked from his apartment in Kyiv across an ink-black neighbourhood. He knew the dark and cold was not an experience unique to him. Click to subscribe to Ukraine War Diaries wherever you get your podcasts For weeks, millions across Ukraine's capital have grown used to living with the blackouts brought on by air attacks targeting the country's power infrastructure. But on Tuesday, with winter taking hold, Russia attacked again, this time launching their biggest one day air assault. For the first time, Ilyas' apartment block was plunged into darkness. "I'm recording this after four hours of air raid," he explains in the latest edition of the Sky News Ukraine War Diaries podcast. "And it's been reported that over 100 missiles have been launched on Ukrainian territory. I'm bac
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