battered

Few sporting rivalries are fiercer than the Ashes, with battered bodies and bloodied faces all part of nearly 150 years of feuding.

They were battered, they were bruised, they were soaking wet and covered in stereotypes.

Russia has battered Ukraine's energy grid with nightly drone and missile strikes in what Kyiv calls cynical attacks that seek to plunge millions of Ukrainians into the darkness and cold through the winter.

The grid has been battered by Russian attacks and charges that Kyiv could have done more to protect the network are sensitive.

The accusations against Timur Mindich are the latest episode in a sweeping corruption scandal involving claims of massive embezzlement from the energy sector, even as the country's infrastructure is battered by Russian attacks.