{"id":50819,"date":"2026-10-16T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/attacks-on-ukraines-power-plants-show-russia-has-given-up-on-military-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:44:43","slug":"attacks-on-ukraines-power-plants-show-russia-has-given-up-on-military-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/attacks-on-ukraines-power-plants-show-russia-has-given-up-on-military-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks on Ukraine\u2019s power plants show Russia has given up on military victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes increasingly resemble an intercepted Russian blueprint to make life unliveable in major Ukrainian cities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/oct\/16\/eu-von-der-leyen-russia-sanctions-diesel-fuel-zelenskyy-donald-trump-membership-migration-latest-news-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Russian missiles and drones have systematically slammed into power plants in Kyiv and Kharkiv this week, the rolling blackouts and water outages have increasingly resembled a supposed Russian blueprint to destroy life in major Ukrainian cities seen by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Donald Trump unilaterally declared an \u201cenergy ceasefire\u201d last week between Moscow and Kyiv, Russia continued with its methodical and devastating strikes on Ukraine\u2019s power grid, in particular in Kyiv, in a strategy meant to punish Ukraine\u2019s population and drive the country to capitulation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/16\/attacks-on-ukraine-power-plants-show-russia-has-given-up-on-military-victory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikes increasingly resemble an intercepted Russian blueprint to make life unliveable in major Ukrainian cities Europe live \u2013 latest updates As Russian missiles and drones have systematically slammed into power plants in Kyiv and Kharkiv this week, the rolling blackouts and water outages have increasingly resembled a supposed Russian blueprint to destroy life in major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 10:45:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}