Blackouts Hit 600,000 as Russia and Ukraine Strike Energy Grids
A surge in “tit-for-tat” infrastructure attacks has plunged over half a million people into darkness across the Russo-Ukrainian border. In Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported that 450,000 residents lost electricity, heating, and water as temperatures hovered near freezing. Simultaneously, 150,000 consumers in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region faced total power failure following strikes on…