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Olga Khakova

Olga Khakova is a nonresident fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center (GEC). Khakova was the deputy director for European energy security at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center (GEC). She led GEC’s portfolio on synchronizing climate and energy security efforts through transatlantic cooperation.

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Russia broke the energy ceasefire. The West can enforce one that lasts

by Olga Khakova
Russia is back to destroying Ukraine's critical infrastructure, following several days of reprieve facilitated by U.S. President Donald Trump's diplomatic push. Moscow's brief pause on terror was unmasked as a magnified attack days later. Russian drones and missiles were launched on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving hundreds of thousands without water, heat, and electricity under the polar vortex temperatures as low as -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit). Without sufficient air defense, Ukraine