25 h. ago Two kids among civilians killed in huge Russian blitz on Ukraine as Putin targets power plants that keep families warm

TWO children were among civilians killed in a massive Russian blitz on Ukraine yesterday. It marked the start of a bid by tyrant Vladimir Putin to freeze the country into submission. The boys, aged 11 and 14, died in the Dnipropetrovsk region along with two women. It came as Putin targeted power plants needed to...

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35 h. ago Two dead as Russia continues to blast Ukraine’s power grids with drone attacks

Two killed and three wounded in a Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s Odesa

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36 h. ago Ukraine deploys special forces to Pokrovsk in effort to hold key city

Escalating battle for city comes as overnight Russian drone and missile strikes kill six people, including two childrenUkraine has deployed special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk in an attempt to push back an intense Russian assault involving thousands of troops, Kyiv’s top commander has said.The escalating battle in the strategically important city comes as an overnight wave of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including two children, and cut power to tens of thousands, officials said on Sunday. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago 2 dead as Russia continues to blast Ukraine’s power grids with drone attacks

Two killed and three wounded in a Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s Odesa

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40 h. ago 2 people killed in Ukraine’s Odesa region as Russia continues to blast power grid

At least two people were killed and three wounded in a Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s Odesa region early Sunday

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69 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks on substations are ‘nuclear terrorism’, says Ukraine

Ukrainian foreign ministry says deliberate strikes on civilian energy facilities violate international law as fears of a winter crisis grow. What we know on day 1,347Ukraine’s foreign ministry has denounced what it described as Russian attacks on substations critical to supplying external power for Ukraine’s nuclear power stations. Russia has carried out “targeted strikes on such substations”, a ministry statement issued late on Friday said. “Deliberate strikes on civilian energy facilities that directly affect the safe operation of nuclear installations bear the hallmarks of nuclear terrorism and constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law,” it added.The foreign ministry referred to a statement issued on Thursday by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reporting military activity “that has led to damage to substations critical to nuclear safety and security in Ukraine”. The IAEA statement reported incidents near two nuclear plants – So...

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4 d. ago Russia blasts Ukraine's power grid again, causing outages across the country and killing 2

Russia has launched another massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing power outages across the country

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5 d. ago How Russia is risking nuclear catastrophe with attempts to syphon power from Ukraine’s biggest plant

The exiled mayor of Enerhodar, close to Ukraine’s biggest nuclear power station fears tells Sam Kiley in Zaporizhzhia he is afraid of an ecological catastrophe

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9 d. ago Massive explosion as Putin's forces destroy key Kyiv power station

The attack, which will knock out power to heating just as the Ukrainian winter approaches, saw an inferno lighting up the night sky above Kyiv’s left bank, following the missile strike

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1 week ago What REALLY killed Napoleon's army as they fled from Russia: Study of soldiers' teeth finds two deadly pathogens that 'ravaged French troops amid doomed invasion'

The French emperor's failed invasion of Russia in 1812 left more than 500,000 troops dead, with many long believed to have died from a mixture of the cold, starvation and disease.

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1 week ago Ukraine foiled plans to reconnect Zaporizhzhia power plant in time for Putin’s birthday

The power plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine was without external power for a month before repairs were made

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1 week ago Russia returns 1,000 bodies of dead Ukrainians as total death toll nears 200,000

With negotiations for peace between Russia and Ukraine looking further away than ever, Kyiv confirmed that some 1,000 bodies were returned to authorities in the latest exchange

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1 week ago Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reconnected to external power from Ukraine

Move ends month-long reliance on backup generators after power line was cut in SeptemberRussian engineers have reconnected the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to external electrical power from Ukraine, ending a month-long emergency that had plunged the future of the six-reactor site into doubt.Ukrainian sources told the Guardian that Russian technicians had hoped to connect Europe’s biggest nuclear plant – which had been relying on backup generators since its last external power line was cut in September – to power from the Russian grid on 7 October as a birthday present for Vladimir Putin. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ukrainians brace for another winter of power cuts as Russia shifts tactics

Millions of Ukrainians are preparing for another winter of blackouts as Russia renews its strikes on the country’s energy grid

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2 w. ago Poem of the week: On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson

An elegy to the poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmthOn the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel JohnsonCondemned to Hope’s delusive mine As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blast or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Repairs begin in bid to restore power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

UN watchdog says Russia and Ukraine have established special ceasefire zones to allow the repairs to be safely carried out. What we know on day 1,334Work has started to repair damaged power lines leading to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after a lengthy outage, the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Saturday. The site, occupied by Russian forces since March 2022, lost its connection to the grid on 23 September for the 10th time – the longest outage of external power supply to the facility since Russia invaded Ukraine.The repairs to the off-site power lines began after Russian and Ukrainian forces established “local ceasefire zones to allow work to proceed”, Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in a post on X. “Both sides engaged constructively with the IAEA to enable the complex repair plan to proceed,” Grossi said. “Restoration of off-site power is crucial for nuclear safety and security.” The agency said it expected the work to take about...

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2 w. ago Work begins to restore power to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Work has begun to repair the damaged power supply to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said

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2 w. ago Trump has threatened to give Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine – but can they turn the tide of the war?

Washington may give access to powerful Tomahawk missiles, with Moscow threatening to respond. Experts tell Nicole Wootton-Cane that the weapons could significantly boost Ukraine - but their power shouldn’t be overstated

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3 w. ago The UN nuclear watchdog seeks a local truce to restore power to the Zaporizhzhia plant

Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear watchdog is pushing Ukraine and Russia to agree to local ceasefires so that external power can be restored to Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia

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3 w. ago Russia attacks Ukraine's power grid as Moscow worries over US Tomahawk missiles

Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid as part of an ongoing campaign to damage energy infrastructure before winter

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