This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Ukraine conflict.

I welcome Bill Rajo, senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

He keeps the Long War Journal, where you can routinely see reporting by his colleague,

John Hardy, watching Ukraine conflict. We have a headline this morning that calls attention

to the civilian population of Ukraine, facing winter and a stalemated or apparently unhappy front in all directions. But this is about the cities.

CNN running this headline in these last hours. Millions of Ukrainians face dark and cold after one of

Russia's largest attacks on the energy infrastructure.

There are reports of Russia using drones and missiles and glide bombs against energy nodes throughout Ukraine.

In addition, there were reports over the weekend of Russia's striking substations of two nuclear power plants.

You were recalls that Parisia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, is in Russian control, but there are other power plants to strike. This is especially alarming

because the wrong missile and the wrong place at a power plant, a nuclear power plant, can lead to

Chernobyl-like conditions for all of Europe, not just for Ukraine.

So it is a dangerous game that Russians are playing.

However, we have routine reports from Ukraine for quite some time of hours in which you do not have power during the day,

so much so that CNN tells us people arrange their cooking hours

or their homework hours when they have lights. That is the past. The question is, is there

something new now with these reports of energy nodes being struck by a variety of missiles by the

Russians. Are the Russians better at it?

Are there less defenses?

John, a very good evening to you.

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