Norway gives $103mn to Ukraine to secure electricity

Electricity crisis deepens in Ukraine

After Russia's attack on a power station in northwestern Ukraine, 100,000 people have been left without electricity. The attack caused a complete power outage in the entire area bordering Russia. Ukrainergo, the national grid operator, is working to restore electricity production. There were no reported injuries or deaths from the attack. Russia has continued to target power plants across Ukraine. The interrupted electricity supply has forced people to live without water and air conditioning in the intense heat. Ukraine has lost 9 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity in the last three months alone due to Russia's attacks on...

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Norway gives $103mn to Ukraine to secure electricity

Norway said Sunday that it would provide 1.1 billion kroner ($103 million) to Ukraine to help repair its energy infrastructure and secure the country's electricity supply before next winter. "Russia is carrying out massive, systematic attacks to paralyse the power grid, but Ukrainians are working day and night to maintain essential electricity supplies for the population," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in a statement. According to new estimates, more than 50 percent of Ukraine's power production capacity has been destroyed, the government said. "We are in close dialogue with Ukraine on how it can use these funds most...

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Almost half million homes in Kyiv without electricity due to Russian attacks

Russian strikes on Ukraine as the tension between the two countries continues to escalate, almost half a million homes in Kyiv were without electricity.

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Ukraine to restrict electricity supplies as Russia knocks out more power plants

Ukrainian energy officials said they had no choice but to introduce restrictions on electricity supplies across country.

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Russian-occupied nuclear power plant resumes electricity supply to Ukraine

KYIV: The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant resumed electricity supplies to Ukraine on Friday after one of its six reactors was reconnected to the Ukrainian grid, state nuclear company Energoatom said. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which is located in southern Ukraine, was disconnected from the Ukrainian grid for the first time in its history […]

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Ukraine war: Explosions rock Russian base in Ukraine's Crimea

AUG 16: Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts at an arms dump in the Dzhankoi area in northern Crimea. A fire was also visible at an electricity substation. What caused the blasts is unclear, but last week Russian warplanes were destroyed in an apparent Ukrainian attack on the Crimean coast. Ukrainian presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the incident as "demilitarisation in action", indicating that the explosions were not accidental. A Crimean Tatar leader, Refat Chubarov, also described the explosions as a "hit" that could be heard "far across the steppe". Russia's defence ministry said the fire broke out at a temporary ammunition storage site near the village of Maiske (or Mayskoye in Russian) at around 06:15 Moscow time (03:15 GMT) and that the cause was being investigated. Rail services were also disrupted due to damage to the track. The ministry said there had been no "serious" casualties, but Russian-appointed regional head Sergei Aksyonov visited the site and said 2,000 people had been moved from a nearby village and two people had been wounded. "One man has a shrapnel wound, and one was crushed by a wall. Their lives are not in danger, fortunately," he said. Crimea was seized from Ukraine and then annexed by Russia in early 2014, and when Russian forces unleashed a new invasion in February they used their bases on the peninsula to capture large swathes of southern Ukraine. Russian occupation has stretched across two southern regions in particular, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine has vowed to launch a counter-offensive to recapture areas under Russian control. After a Russian air base at Saky was hit last Tuesday, satellite images revealed significant damage, with at least eight warplanes destroyed. Although Russia said that incident was also accidental, there was little doubt the base had come under Ukrainian attack due to the precise nature of the destruction. The UK Ministry of Defence said the blasts had "significantly degraded" the aviation capability of the Russian navy's Black Sea fleet. The latest blasts at an ammunition depot are reminiscent of a string of recent attacks behind Russian lines in eastern Ukraine. Since June, Ukrainian forces have used US Himars multiple rocket launchers to hit as many as 50 arms stores, according to the defence minister. Bridges in the south have also been hit, jeopardising vital supply lines from Crimea to Kherson. The apparent ability of Ukraine's military to reach so far behind enemy lines is of significant embarrassment to the Russians. The explosions at Saky were visible from nearby beaches and videos posted afterwards on social media showed streams of tourists leaving Crimea, across a bridge built across the Kerch Strait after the Russian annexation. With inputs from BBC

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Ukraine war: Ukraine and Russia both claim control over Lysychansk

JULY 3: Ukraine says its forces are enduring intense Russian shelling there but insists the city has not been seized. However, Russian-backed separatists say they have successfully entered the city and reached its centre. Russian media showed videos of separatist or Russian forces apparently parading through the streets. Russian sources have also tweeted video of the Soviet flag allegedly being placed on the city's ruined administrative centre, but that has not been verified. It is the last Ukrainian-held city in Luhansk, part of the industrial Donbas region. Russia captured the nearby city of Severodonetsk last month. The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haida, said there had been no let-up in the assault on Lysychansk, with Russian forces approaching the besieged city from all sides. Rodion Miroshnik, ambassador to Russia of the pro-Moscow breakaway Luhansk People's Republic, told Russian television that Lysychansk had been "brought under control" but was "not yet liberated". Images of Chechen Russian soldiers inside the city were shared by defence blogger Rob Lee. Since Russia invaded on 24 February, claiming it wanted to "demilitarise" and "de-Nazify" Ukraine after it moved closer to Nato, thousands of civilians and combatants have been killed or wounded, while at least 12 million people have fled their homes. Western states have responded by arming Ukraine and placing unprecedented sanctions on Russia, a nuclear superpower and global energy supplier. In another development, railway tracks and electricity lines in the northern city of Kharkiv were damaged in a series of attacks. No casualties were reported. The southern city of Mykolaiv - on a key route to the port city of Odesa - was shaken by several explosions. The Russian defence ministry said its air force had destroyed five Ukrainian command posts and several ammunition dumps, but that claim has not been independently verified. The blasts came a day after the Russians were accused of killing more than 20 people in a missile strike on a block of flats near Odesa. Later on Saturday, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said his country's air defences had shot down Ukrainian missiles, though he did not specify where. He is a close ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin and allowed Russian troops to invade Ukraine from Belarus in February. "They are provoking us... Three days ago, maybe a bit more, an attempt to strike military facilities on Belarusian territory was made from the territory of Ukraine," he said. "But, thank God, the Pantsir anti-aircraft systems managed to intercept all the missiles." He added that "we are not seeking to fight in Ukraine". In its latest intelligence update, the UK Defence Ministry accuses Russia of using Soviet-era anti-ship missiles "in a secondary land attack role" - not what they were designed for. The Kh-22 and Kh-32 missiles were "likely" the ones that killed many civilians in Kremenchuk and Odesa, the ministry says. Slovyansk, a major Donbas city held by Ukrainian forces, has also been shelled again by the Russians. Its mayor Vadym Lyakh said banned Russian cluster munitions killed four people there - another claim the BBC was unable to verify.

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Ukraine war: Russia says it will curb Kyiv assault as peace talks progress

MARCH 30: The decision to scale back operations around the capital, Kyiv, and the northern city of Chernihiv is the first sign of tangible progress. But it is unclear how extensive any reduction in military activity might be, and Ukraine remains sceptical. Russia had already refocused its campaign on Ukraine's eastern regions. It has suffered a series of setbacks to the north-west of the capital, Kyiv, and is also seeking to capture a land corridor which stretches along the south coast to the Russian border. President Volodymyr Zelensky, however, said he saw no reason to believe the words of some Russian representatives. "We can say that the signals... are positive, but those signals do not drown out the explosions or Russian shells," he said in a video address late Tuesday. Officials in Washington said they had already seen the Russians draw away from Kyiv, but they were still pounding the capital with air strikes . The US said it had little confidence that the announcement marked any significant shift or meaningful retreat. The US had not seen "signs of real seriousness" from Russia in pursuing peace talks, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who pointed to the continued "brutalisation" of Ukraine's people. During the talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul, Ukraine proposed to become a neutral state in exchange for security guarantees. A key aim of Russia's invasion was to stop Ukraine joining the Nato alliance and Russian officials said the talks had moved to a practical stage. Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin, who was in Istanbul, told Russian TV that as "Ukraine's neutrality and non-nuclear status and security guarantees" had progressed, the defence ministry had taken the decision to cut its operations dramatically in the two areas to "create the necessary conditions for further negotiations and for the signing of the aforementioned agreement". Ukrainian negotiator Oleksandr Chaly told reporters that its offer of neutrality was a chance to "restore the territorial integrity and security of Ukraine through diplomatic and political means". Ukraine's aim was to "fix its status as a de facto non-bloc and non-nuclear state in the form of permanent neutrality". The discussions here lasted around three hours. Very little was leaked, and nearly all media were kept away in a packed area on a pavement outside. The key points became clear as members of the Ukrainian delegation came out onto the street an hour before the expected finish. The negotiators said they had proposed to Russia that Ukraine adopt a neutral status in exchange for security guarantees - an international mechanism where guarantor countries would act to protect Ukraine in future. In return Kyiv would not join Nato, a key Russian demand. This was not a new pledge, but it was spelt out in the clearest detail yet. Many are sceptical about what Russia's announcement about reducing military operations actually means; whether it's a pledge to pull back or merely an acceptance it has already failed in those areas and will instead turn its full force further east. Western countries, therefore, are saying they will judge Russia by its actions and not its words. Russian forces have encircled Chernihiv, where officials say up to 400 people have been killed and some 130,000 residents are without heating, electricity or water supplies. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said that Russia had twisted the knife in Ukraine and that "we must judge Putin's regime by their actions not their words". Russia's chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said talks had been "meaningful" and Ukraine's proposals on neutrality would be put to President Vladimir Putin, holding out the possibility of a summit involving President Zelensky. However, he made clear that before that could happen a treaty would have to be drafted and approved by negotiators, and then signed by foreign ministers. "This is not a ceasefire but this is our aspiration, gradually to reach a de-escalation of the conflict at least on these fronts," Mr Medinsky told Russian state news agency Tass. Launching the invasion, Mr Putin had described Nato as a threat that was becoming more dangerous to Russia by the year. However, there was no mention in the talks of Mr Putin's regular demands that Ukraine be demilitarised or that it be "de-Nazified", an allegation that has been widely ridiculed as Russian propaganda. Ukraine's negotiators in Istanbul handed the Russians detailed proposals covering neutrality and other core issues in the conflict: -Ukraine would become a "non-bloc and non-nuclear" state, with no foreign military bases or contingents on its territory -This would have strict, legally binding guarantees from countries including the UK, China, the USA, Turkey, France, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel which would agree to protect a neutral Ukraine in the event of attack -Ukraine would not enter military-political alliances and any international exercises would require consent of guarantor states -The future status of Crimea, seized by Russia in 2014, would be decided by 15 years of consultations -The future of the eastern areas held by Russian-backed separatists would be discussed by the two presidents. Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia said this framework would enable to ceasefire to be agreed without Crimea and the eastern regions being settled. The proposals would also enable Ukraine to join the European Union, while barring it from becoming part of Nato's defensive military alliance. With inputs from BBC

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Nepal is hit hard as Ukraine crisis increases electricity price in India

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Facts about Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia, Ukraine to hold online negotiations

BEIJING, March 14: The Russia-Ukraine conflict continues on Monday as relevant parties are working to broker a peaceful solution. Following are the latest developments of the situation: Russian and Ukrainian delegations will resume talks on Monday via video link, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. "Negotiations go non-stop in the format of video conferences. Working groups are constantly functioning. A large number of issues require constant attention. On Monday, March 14, a negotiating session will be held to sum up the preliminary results," Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the Head of the President's Office of Ukraine, tweeted on Sunday night. - - - - External electricity supplies have been restored at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, four days after its disconnection from the power grid, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Sunday. Ukraine's regulatory authorities told the IAEA that Ukrainian specialist teams repaired one of the two damaged power lines at Chernobyl on Sunday, enabling all required off-site power to be delivered to the plant, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said in a daily statement. The plant will be connected to the Ukrainian electricity grid on Monday morning, according to Ukraine's regulator. "This is a positive development as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has had to rely on emergency diesel generators for several days now," the IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said. "However, I remain gravely concerned about safety and security at Chernobyl and Ukraine's other nuclear facilities." - - - - Near half of Russia's roughly 640 billion U.S. dollars of gold and foreign currency reserves has been frozen, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Sunday. Siluanov said on a Russian TV program that Russia will pay roubles to its debt holders. He said that the current conflict in Ukraine has not been easy for Russian financial institutions. Still, the country's capital reserves have made it possible for banks under severe restrictions to function. "Of course, we have enough money to ensure the production of vital goods. The Central Bank will provide the necessary liquidity to the financial system," he said. - - - - Explosions were heard on Sunday in Ukraine's western city of Lviv at about 6 a.m. local time (0400 GMT). Earlier in the day, air raid alerts went off in Lviv at 3:30 a.m. local time, with residents rushing to bomb shelters for security.

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Norway gives $103mn to Ukraine to secure electricity

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Russian strikes on Ukraine as the tension between the two countries continues to escalate, almost half a million homes in Kyiv were without electricity.

Ukrainian energy officials said they had no choice but to introduce restrictions on electricity supplies across country.

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