In Ukraine, power plant workers fight to save their 'child'
HANNA ARHIROVA
Associated Press
The power cuts underscored the weakness of Ukraine's power system after three months of Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Officials have said about 40% of the system has been damaged. Energy workers in Kharkiv have been trying to repair power lines and gen…
A POWER PLANT, Ukraine — Around some of their precious transformers — the ones that still work, buzzing with electricity — the power plant workers have built protective shields using giant concrete blocks, so they have a better chance of surviving the next Russian missile bombardment.
Ukrainian battalion commander Kosyantyn Zhydkov "Kostya Dziu," center, shows his operational area Saturday to Serhiy Melnyk "Marsel," left, a general of the Ukrainian army, and "Dyadya Roma," right, a Ukrainian brigade commander, at a front line in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine.
Evgeniy Maloletka
Soldiers from the Azov Regiment, several members of which were captured by Russia in May after the fall of Mariupol, demand their fellow soldiers be freed at a prison-style Christmas table Saturday during a flashmob demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine. Relatives of Azov soldiers hold posters reading "Bring Azov back."
