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Ukraine’s green energy transition took a frightening twist overnight, when more than 1,000 coal miners in the Dnipropetrovs’k region were trapped underground by the latest Russian missile attack. Ukraine and its leading utility DTEK have already pledged to discontinue burning coal in power plants, in accord with other European nations. This latest act of violence against civilians provides all the more reason to shed fossil fuels as a national security threat, as well as an environmental one.
Russia Attacks Ukraine Power Grid Again
According to DTEK, Russia has attacked its thermal power plants in Ukraine more than 160 times since invading the nation in February of 2022. Forty of those attacks have occurred during the 2023-24 heating season.
DTEK provided an update on the latest attack…
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