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A Russian city gets a taste of the cold devastation to Ukraine’s power grid

Russia’s Belgorod is experiencing the power and heat outages that are normally inflicted by Russian forces on neighboring Ukraine. Today [Jan 14]  at 5:00 a.m. EST A power blackout in Belgorod, Russia, on Friday. (Reuters) Robyn Dixon  and Natalia Abbakumova,   The Washington Post ;  article contains links For months Russian strikes have been systematically smashing Ukraine’s energy sector, hitting power plants and electricity relay stations, and plunging the country into darkness during the frigid winter. Starting Friday, one Russian city on the border, Belgorod, got a taste of what the Ukrainians have been going through when it was hit by widespread outages after Kyiv’s forces launched its own strike against the city’s infrastructure. Ukraine hit the plants producing power and hot water for Belgorod, leaving 600,000 people without power and 200,000 without water — a situation common across the border in Ukraine just 25 miles away. In the days that followed, as...
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The leader (?) of the free world speaks ...

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“My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” Credit... Eric Lee for The New York Times Trump image and quotation  from The New York Times  (Jan 14)
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The U.S. Could Make 2026 Even Worse for Putin Than 2025

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The war in Ukraine has lasted as long as Soviet involvement in World War II, with no victory in sight. By  Amy Knight, The Wall Street Journal ,  Jan. 11, 2026 11:59 am  ET Vladimir Putin speaks with military personnel and their family members in Solvechnogorsk, Russia, Jan. 7.   VYACHESLAV PROKOFYEV/SPUTNIK/REUTERS The year has started badly for  Vladimir Putin . As of Sunday, the war in Ukraine has lasted as long as the Great Patriotic War, as Moscow refers to the Soviet involvement in World War II: 1,418 days. Stalin’s forces made it to Berlin in that time, but Mr. Putin’s progress has been more modest. Last year Russian troops captured less than 1% of Ukrainian territory. At this pace, it will take Russia another year to reach the Donetsk border and control the area Mr. Putin is demanding Ukraine hand over as a precondition for peace. The U.S. military’s swift capture of Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Jan. 3 further highlighted...
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A Russian city gets a taste of the cold devastation to Ukraine’s power grid

Russia’s Belgorod is experiencing the power and heat outages that are normally inflicted by Russian forces on neighboring Ukraine . A power blackout in Belgorod, Russia, on Friday. (Reuters) Robyn Dixon  and Natalia Abbakumova,   The Washington Post   For months Russian strikes have been systematically smashing Ukraine’s energy sector, hitting power plants and electricity relay stations, and plunging the country into darkness during the frigid winter.  Starting Friday, one Russian city on the border, Belgorod, got a taste of what the Ukrainians have been going through when it was hit by widespread outages after Kyiv’s forces launched its own strike against the city’s infrastructure. Ukraine hit the plants producing power and hot water for Belgorod, leaving 600,000 people without power and 200,000 without water — a situation common across the border in Ukraine just 25 miles away. In the days that followed, as authorities struggled to come to grips with the cri...
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