Generators ‘as important as armour’ to Ukraine surviving winter, says Zelenskiy
by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor from World news | The Guardian on (#66SFK)
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.
A total of 1.05bn (900m) in financial and in-kind aid was pledged but the Ukrainian president said as well as surviving the winter the country needed an additional 1.5bn to restore the long-term damage to the energy grid.
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