The first snow of the season on Thursday fell in Ukraine, which has been wracked by energy cuts following Russian strikes on vitality infrastructure all through the nation.

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AFP journalists within the capital Kyiv, which has been affected by scheduled and unannounced electrical energy cuts, noticed blizzard Thursday, after the regional governor this week warned the scenario may turn into “difficult” and that temperatures may drop to minus 10 levels Celsius (50 levels Fahrenheit.