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Russia attacks Ukrainian energy grid, forcing power cuts as winter looms - reuters.com

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DW NOTE

Russia has now targeted Ukraine's power infrastructure in eight consecutive winters. The pattern is fixed: destroy capacity in autumn, freeze civilians through winter, rebuild in spring, repeat. The West calls each round an escalation. Ukraine calls it Tuesday. Winter looms, the grid burns, and the only surprise is that anyone still pretends this isn't Russia's preferred steady state.

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Russia attacks Ukrainian energy grid, forcing power cuts as winter looms - reuters.com

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