Ukraine president calls for more infrastructure aid to counter Putin’s ‘blackout and energy terror’

Generators are as important as armour in helping Ukraine survive Vladimir Putin’s energy terror this winter, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told an emergency conference in Paris convened to coordinate infrastructure and humanitarian aid to the country over the next four months.

The Ukrainian president said the country needed an additional €800m to survive the winter and €1.5bn to restore the long-term damage to the energy grid.

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