Ukraine is bracing for Russia’s hardest winter blitz yet
THE SUN beats down on the utilities repair crew in Bereznyaky, a prefab-concrete suburb on Kyiv’s left bank. Winter-proofing the electricity grid is slow work, digging out hundreds of metres of Soviet-laid cable and replacing it with thicker lines able to withstand an emergency surge. But foreman Roman Kravchenko is cutting no corners; he knows…