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The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, has warned that many Ukrainians living close to the frontline might freeze to death when the temperature drops to minus ten. Mr Egeland, who has just visited Ukraine, said intense Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure have paralysed the country.

Travelling to Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and some of the recently retaken towns, he met people who he said were living in desperate conditions. Mr Egeland told Newsday that Moscow was "weaponising winter" with an indiscriminate hail of rockets. He said: 鈥淚 met people who had not ate for many months, who have not had gas, electricity, heating for months鈥�these are elderly people, there are disabled people, these are people who are really bed-ridden. In many cases, it鈥檚 the most vulnerable.鈥�

(Picture: Ukrainian police officer hugs an elderly woman in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine on November 13th 2022. When the woman heard that Ukrainian police had come to the village, she decided to thank them by giving her flowers from her own flower garden. Credit: Taras Ibragimov /Suspilne Ukraine via Getty Images.)