Russia’s Campaign to Leave Ukraine in the Dark
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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For the last two months in Ukraine, it has been dark. |
| 0:10.5 | When you're in Kiev now, you might be getting four hours of power a day at your house. |
| 0:16.2 | You might be getting eight hours of power a day if you're lucky. |
| 0:20.1 | Our colleague Ian Loveot is in Ukraine. |
| 0:23.1 | And people have said that they've really been organizing their lives in terms of when |
| 0:27.8 | they work around when they're going to have power. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, because even basic stuff like the street lights aren't on. |
| 0:32.4 | So if you're just like walking to a restaurant, you still need the flashlight just to walk |
| 0:36.8 | this couple of blocks. |
| 0:39.2 | Russian air strikes against the country's power grids have turned the lights off. |
| 0:44.0 | Part of a massive campaign started in early October. |
| 0:47.9 | There was an enormous barrage of cruise missiles launched at civilian sites all across the |
| 0:52.9 | country. |
| 0:53.9 | They started hitting power stations all over the country. |
| 0:57.0 | Ian says that as the air strikes continue, rolling blackouts are upending life for millions |
| 1:03.3 | in Ukraine. |
| 1:04.9 | And basically ever since then, every week or two, there's been another one of these |
| 1:09.9 | huge parages of missiles aimed at the power stations. |
| 1:14.6 | And they've slowly knocked out more and more and more of Ukraine's power generation. |
| 1:21.8 | It's not just the lights, but water and heat connected to the grids that are disrupted |
| 1:26.5 | as well. |
| 1:28.2 | And today, it is below freezing in the country's capital. |
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