With snow falling over Kiev and temperatures dropping below zero, Ukrainian authorities admitted yesterday that they did not have the capacity to produce enough electricity to meet growing heating needs and, together with their neighbors in the European Union towards solutions. This comes at a time when military leaders fear a repeat of last winter’s Russian attacks on their energy infrastructure.
A year ago, millions of Ukrainians were left in the dark and in the cold as a result of Russian attacks on power plants and other energy production sites. Now Ukrenergo, a Ukrainian electricity supplier, explains that given the increase in consumption, it has already asked operators in Romania, Slovakia and Poland to provide “urgent assistance” to increase supply.
In recent weeks, Kiev has stepped up calls for its Western allies to improve its air defenses in light of the threat of systematic attacks by Russian aviation on its power generation facilities. Although Ukrainian authorities do not release details about the state of their electricity grid, a UN report released in the summer found that today it would be half of what it was before the war.
On the same day that Russian authorities announced the deaths of five more people in Russian bombings in the south and east of the country, the same sources quoted by the British newspaper The guard, assured that Moscow is sending “waves” of soldiers to Avdiivka. The Ukrainian city became the new center of the war, as the Russians threw all their energy into this small town in Donetsk province, with losses estimated at tens of thousands of soldiers, in a yard-by-yard battle, the bloodiest since Bakhmut. which had been Russia’s last notable victory in May, largely due to the actions of the mercenaries of the Wagner Group.
Yesterday, the British Ministry of Defense announced that a group of former Wagner members have been officially recognized as military veterans by Russia. This comes after the group became part of the Russian National Guard, and after speculation arose about the future of the mercenaries following the mutiny last June and the death of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in the crash of a plane flying north of Moscow and is suspected of having been the target of an attack orchestrated by Russian authorities.
Russian politician denies he adopted a Ukrainian girl
Citing Russian and Ukrainian documents, the BBC revealed yesterday that Sergei Mironov, a Russian politician close to Vladimir Putin, adopted a child, now two years old, taken from an orphanage in the Ukrainian city of Kherson. Accusations that Mironov denied. Russia has repeatedly been accused of forcibly deporting thousands of Ukrainian children taken from schools, hospitals or orphanages in areas of the country under Russian control.
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Putin for “war crimes and illegal deportation” and transferring children from Ukraine to Russia. According to the BBC, Mironov appears in the adoption records of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is now married to. curators of Westerners”.
Source: DN
