By Rostyslav Averchuk
Lviv, Mar 7 (EFE).- While Russia launched a new combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s gas and electricity infrastructure on Friday despite Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s offer of a mutual pause on such strikes, Ukraine emerged from winter with its energy system damaged but operational, having avoided a major blackout.
Power cuts are likely to return soon, however, as Ukraine’s nuclear power stations begin to undergo maintenance and the halt of United States military could make the country’s infrastructure more vulnerable to the continuing attacks.
In Lviv and other Ukrainian cities, large power generators remain at the shops’ entrances, but the lack of a loud hum meant there was no need to activate them on Friday.
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