KYIV: Kyiv residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers struggled to restore power, water and heat knocked out in the latest salvo of Russian strikes. Russia has regularly conducted intense bombardments of Ukraine’s energy system since it invaded its neighbor in 2022. The war’s fourth winter could be the coldest and darkest yet, with the accumulated damage to the grid bringing utilities to the brink, and temperatures already below minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 F) and set to plunge further this week.

Russia hits Ukraine's energy infrastructure hard, slams plans for post-ceasefire multinational force in the country.

KYIV: Mass heating outages caused by Russian strikes on Kyiv are set to last into the weekend, as the capital’s mayor called on residents to temporarily leave the city with…