RUSSIA LAUNCHED THE “most powerful” attack this year on Ukraine’s battered energy facilities overnight, Kyiv said today, leaving hundreds of thousands without heating in glacial temperatures ahead of talks to end the four-year war. “It is both symbolic and cynical: the aggressor state strikes at a place of remembrance of the struggle against aggression in the 20th century, repeating its crimes in the 21st century,” Culture Minister Tetyana Berezhna wrote on social media. Authorities had to cut heating to more than 800 homes to prevent the wider network from freezing, the regional governor said, urging people to go to round-the-clock “invincibility points” if they needed to warm up.
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Published at: 2026-02-03 21:49:37
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