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Andriy Savchuk

Andriy Savchuk is an analyst with the Civil Network OPORA, a non-partisan NGO focused on public oversight and advocacy regarding elections, education, energy efficiency, local self-government, joint ownership, and the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

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Opinion: Russia’s energy infrastructure attacks are depopulating Ukraine

The collapse of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure last year due to Russia’s war brought the entire country to its knees. And while Ukraine was, for the most part, spared from widespread blackouts this winter, Russian forces are once again targeting critical infrastructure. Russia resumed missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in late March, leaving over a million consumers across the country without power. Around 700,000 people in Kharkiv Oblast, at least 200,000 people in O