Europe's centralized grid remains its vulnerability
Ukraine has now survived four winters of systematic Russian strikes on its energy infrastructure.
This past winter was especially challenging. The United Nations documented near-daily strikes on energy infrastructure across 17 regions in January alone. In Kyiv, repeated attacks on two combined heat and power plants cut central heating to nearly 6,000 residential buildings each time. All 15 of Ukraine's thermal power plants have now been damaged or destroyed.
Yet Ukraine managed to adapt — and
