Russian milblogger urges hitting Ukraine’s nuclear plants. ISW: without stronger defenses, last winter will likely repeat
Ukraine’s nuclear plants have already cut output because the damaged grid cannot carry their power.
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Russia abducts Ukrainian children, and the Netherlands now funds UN search for them as part of new €1.2 billion aid package
Dutch companies get a way into rebuilding Ukraine: €136 million for partnerships and more export insurance in a new aid package.
UN commission finds Russia’s grid strikes are crimes against humanity, citing last winter at minus 21°C. Now they’re intensifying
The commission concluded the strikes followed a state policy to deprive civilians of power and cause suffering, and noted that Russian authorities had openly announced further attacks and referred to a plan to carry them out.
Russian drone cuts down unique energy line tower over Dnipro River in Kyiv. It can’t be rebuilt, and world is queuing for more power equipment
Ukraine’s grid operator Ukrenergo is already starting work on workarounds, but calls drones that cut down towers a new challenge.
Hours after Trump declared an energy ceasefire, Russia hit Kharkiv power plant, one of 200-plus strikes on Ukraine’s grid this week, Zelenskyy says
They killed more than 150 people and wounded more than 700.
Russia adds new weapon to its jet-powered drones, even more dangerous: 40-kilogram charge made to sever high-voltage pylons and iron bridges
Russia opens a massed assault on the grid.
“Now on the 1,657th day”: Ukraine’s crews restored power to over 900,000 homes last week as Russia keeps striking grid before winter
Crews brought it back to 596 settlements, most of them in Odesa and Donetsk.
Kyiv stockpiles food and water as Russia’s new aerial tactics threaten a brutal winter
Russia has already targeted food storage around Kyiv, while Ukraine’s limited air defenses struggle to stop ballistic missiles and faster drones.
Russia’s defense ministry threatens to “freeze” Ukraine this winter
Moscow posted photos of attack drones captioned "like snow on your head," tying the taunt to its strikes on Ukraine's ports.
Finland backs €28.5 million power plant project as Ukraine braces for Russia’s next winter energy assault
Finnish technology will help Ukraine add power generation capacity as repeated Russian strikes continue to threaten the country’s electricity and heating systems.
Ukraine’s distributed generation program has failed. It needed 7,000 MW of small plants to outlast Russian strikes, but built only 700, says former grid chief
The failure leaves the grid as vulnerable to Russian strikes as ever.
Russia plans to make upcoming winter unsurvivable for Ukrainian civilians: Moscow is hitting Ukraine’s gas extraction sites to make heating impossible in cold
Russia struck Naftogaz Group assets across eastern, western, and central Ukraine, hitting gas extraction sites and fuel stations.
Luxembourg adds €8 million to Ukraine’s energy fund, bringing total to €30 million
Fourth contribution from a country of 660,000 people arrives as the fund races to close a €650 million gap before winter.
Russia has destroyed 80% of Ukraine’s power capacity. Its next target makes blackout survivable for only three days
Russia's aim this winter is to destroy Ukraine's water supplies, First Deputy PM and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal says.
She lived in Europe for years and came back to Kyiv for week. Returnee says Ukraine’s reality is not what you read about in news
She arrived from warm, well-lit Europe to renew documents, and within a few hours, she was hearing explosions…
Slovakia’s government distances from Ukraine—but its citizens send warmth in €1 million donations instead
In under two weeks, nearly 19,000 Slovaks fund generators and charging stations for Ukraine’s hardest-hit regions.
Cold classrooms force Ukraine to extend winter break, shift to distance learning amid energy crisis
Schools may be closed or online until February as blackouts and heating failures continue.
Ukraine’s jam-proof drones have one weakness: icy weather
High tech is not immune to mankind's oldest enemy
Kyiv’s apartment pipes burst after Russian strike, hundreds of civilians to be left without heating entire winter
Zelenskyy: Russia preparing another massive strike to "exploit the cold" in coming days.
Ukraine to fortify 100 energy sites by winter as Russian drone strikes intensify
The initiative follows months of systematic Russian attacks that destroyed over half of Ukraine's pre-war energy capacity.