#Energy security

Russia’s latest missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which targeted critical substations and nuclear facilities, have left thousands without power, water, and heating, further escalating the country’s ongoing energy crisis amid subzero temperatures, Ukrainian officials reported on January 20.

As Russian missile and drone strikes plunged large parts of Kyiv into darkness and cold on the night of January 15, residents sheltering in municipal “Points of Invincibility” and inside unheated apartments, which they described as having gone days without electricity, water, or heating, rejected the idea that the pressure would force them to give in.