Russia won’t stop strikes until it runs out of missiles, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says
Kyiv/Kherson, UkraineReuters 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 greater […]
Ukraine remembers Stalin-era famine as Russia war rages
Kyiv, UkraineReuters 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 by […]
Freezing Ukraine gradually restores power after Russian strikes; Pope calls for Ukraine to be “far sighted” to secure peace
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian authorities on Friday gradually restored power to millions of people left in the dark after the most devastating Russian air strikes so far, aided by the reconnection of the country’s four nuclear plants. National power grid operator Ukrenergo said that as of 7pm local time, 30 per cent of electricity supplies were […]
Ukrainians work to restore power to nuclear plants as country freezes
Kyiv, UkraineReuters 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 released […]
Growing number of Germans won’t be left in dark with blackout courses
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 act […]
Ukrainians brace for blackouts, hard winter after Russia pummels power grid
Kyiv, UkraineReuters 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, I […]
Havana protests flare for second night as government scrambles to turn on lights
Havana, CubaReuters 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 size […]
Cuba turns lights back on in parts of Havana, elsewhere still dark after Ian
Havana, CubaReuters Cuba had begun to progressively restore power to the capital Havana by early on Thursday, according to Reuters witnesses and official reports, but vast swaths of the Caribbean island nation still remained in the dark following the passage of Hurricane Ian. Much of the island of 11 million people was entering its third […]
Ukraine hails snowballing offensive, blames Russia for blackouts
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)Kyiv/Kharkiv,UkraineReuters Ukrainian forces kept pushing north in the Kharkiv region and advancing to its south and east, Ukraine’s army chief said on Sunday, a day after their rapid surge forward drove Russia to abandon its main bastion in the area. Ukrainian officials accused retreating Russian forces of launching retaliatory attacks on civilian infrastructure, […]
Combatting power outages: ‘Community Lighthouses’ powered by the sun and volunteers
REBECCA SANTANA, of Associated Press, reports on how a project involving local churches in south-east Louisiana is helping people who are vulnerable during power outages…