‘Blackouts in Kyiv’: Russia batters Ukraine’s power grid amid air defense shortage

Published May 16, 2024 7:10pm ET



Ukrainian authorities have begun to impose rolling blackouts throughout the country under the weight of Russia‘s bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid.

“We have blackouts in Kyiv, so I’m sitting in the darkness right now,” Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, told the Washington Examiner. “Winter hasn’t started here, but we’re already having these blackouts. And it doesn’t bode well for the coming winter.”

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