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Russia fires scores of missiles in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine

Ukraine Kryvyi Rih rescue operation

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said. Three people were killed when an apartment block was hit in central […]

Russia drones smash power network in Ukraine’s Odesa, could take months to repair

Ukraine Odesa power infrastructure

Reuters All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, officials said on Saturday, adding it could take months to repair the damage. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said more than 1.5 million people in the southern port city and surrounding region had no […]

NATO pledges more aid to Kyiv as air raid sirens blare again across Ukraine

Ukraine Kyiv woman and dog

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters The United States and NATO allies on Tuesday promised more arms for Kyiv and equipment to help restore Ukrainian power and heat knocked out by Russian missile and drone strikes, as air raid sirens blared across Ukraine for the first time this week. Ukrainians fled the streets for bomb shelters, although the […]

Russia won’t stop strikes until it runs out of missiles, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says

Ukraine Kyiv blackouts

Kyiv/Kherson, Ukraine Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians to expect another brutal week of cold and darkness ahead, predicting more Russian attacks on infrastructure that would not cease until Moscow ran out of missiles. Russia has been carrying out massive missile bombardments on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure roughly weekly since early October, with each barrage having […]

Ukraine remembers Stalin-era famine as Russia war rages

Ukraine Kyiv Holodomor memorial

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine accused the Kremlin on Saturday of reviving the “genocidal” tactics of Josef Stalin as Kyiv commemorated a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932-33.  The remembrance day for the “Holodomor” comes as Ukraine is battling to repel invading Russian forces and deal with sweeping blackouts caused […]

Ukrainians work to restore power to nuclear plants as country freezes

Ukraine Vyshhorod food aid

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine restored power on Thursday to two of its four nuclear power plants but much of the country remained consigned to freezing darkness by the most devastating Russian air strikes on its energy infrastructure so far. Viewed from space, Ukraine has become a dark patch on the globe at night, satellite images […]

Growing number of Germans won’t be left in dark with blackout courses

Germany Berlin ASB training

Berlin, Germany Reuters Once purely the stuff of action movie plots, the prospect of the lights going out in Europe’s biggest economy has become a conceivable threat during the current energy crisis. Looking to be the heroes in a real-life blackout, a growing number of Germans are turning to citizens’ courses to learn how to […]

Ukrainians brace for blackouts, hard winter after Russia pummels power grid

Ukraine Lviv blackout

Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Liubov Palii was sitting at her computer when the lights went off in her one-bedroom apartment after Russian strikes pummelled Ukraine’s energy network. She started to play with her four-month-old baby boy, Vova, by the light of her mobile phone. “When this happens, we just play together in the bed, lay together, […]

Havana protests flare for second night as government scrambles to turn on lights

Havana, Cuba Reuters Crews restored power to more neighborhoods across Havana on Saturday after a second day of protests over ongoing blackouts in Cuba’s capital, including some of the largest demonstrations since widespread anti-government rallies in July, 2021.  At least one of the protests Friday night in the western seaside borough of Playa swelled in […]