While usually greeted with excitement, the first snows of the winter were this year met with unease in Ukraine, as millions of people were left without power after a fresh barrage of Russian missile strikes targeting the country's infrastructure, and millions more feared being left without heat as the mercury plummeted.

While the recent recapture of Kherson provided a much-needed morale boost to the war-torn country, Ukraine now faces the conflict being frozen for several months as both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries dig in for the winter.

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