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This Is Why

Ukraine's other battle: Keeping the power on

This Is Why

Sky News

News Commentary, Daily News, News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Intense missile strikes from Russia have left Ukraine with country-wide power outages and blackouts. Satellite images show how dark the country has become compared to its neighbours. How will the darkness affect Ukraine as the war enters the winter months?

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by our security and defence editor Deborah Haynes as they explore the impact the continued Russian shelling is having on Ukraine's power grid, and the bleak winter ahead.

Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Soila Apparicio – podcast producer
Jada-Kai Meosa John - junior podcast producer
David Chipakupaku – podcast promotion producer
Philly Beaumont - editor

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Legacy to find out how. What happens when the lights go out in a war zone? Well, I'm sitting in our

1:04.7

studio with a piece of paper, some satellite imagery that might just be able to help us. Now, it's been

1:09.3

taken at night. So, aside from

1:12.2

the handy borders that they have put in in white, which helps those of us like myself who are not

1:17.4

exactly gifted at geography, try and work out what is going on. The only other image that we can

1:23.5

see is the light emanating from various places. And look, yeah, I can identify just there

1:28.9

on the left of the picture, the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. Above that, Warsaw and Poland,

1:35.9

you can make out Belarus. Again, a lot of light emanating from there. The top right of the frame,

1:40.9

in fact, you can see Moscow and St. Petersburg lighting up like a Roman

1:45.7

candle. Same down in the bottom of this image, Sebastopol in Crimea. In the center of this image,

1:53.0

though, you can make out its borders Ukraine. And aside from a couple of places, Leviv in the

1:59.0

west, Kiev right in the centre, there

2:01.7

really aren't any lights on at all. The reason for this, well, a series of Russian airstrikes

2:07.2

a few days ago targeted infrastructure once again, and that meant that the country lost not only

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