Come on. It's Ukraine. The people already have warm clothing. Send whatever the army needs to decisively win the war and send Russia packing. And send money to rebuild what Russia has destroyed because you didn't send what the army needed months ago.
The latest package of military aid sent by Nato to Ukraine, in addition to weapons, fuel and medical supplies, includes winter equipment and winter clothing, while the European Commission is providing temporary cold-weather shelters, generators and electricity grid-repair kits to help tide them over the coming winter.
Guardian
Okay, that's more like it. Stupid headline, Guardian.
More than 6 million Ukrainians, left without heating and electricity, are being plunged into extreme hardship and a long period of blackouts is looming. The World Health Organization has said the destruction of houses and lack of access to fuel or electricity “could become a matter of life or death”.
On 13 December, 70 countries and institutions pledged more than €1bn (£860m or $1.05bn) in immediate aid to help Ukraine get through the coldest season, with £415m devoted to Ukraine’s energy sector, hammered by Russian airstrikes.
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‘‘For each of [Ukraine's] victories on the ground, Russia’s cowardly response is to bomb power, gas or water infrastructure necessary for the people’s survival this winter,” [French President Emanuel Macron] said.
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