In the last months of 2015, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea’s annexation and continuing strife in Ukraine’s east appeared largely to be in stalemate. But now, with the new year, it appears the conflict is heating up again, and playing out on the region’s electric grids.
On Dec. 23, a massive power outage in western Ukraine left approximately 700,000 homes in the dark. That outage was quickly followed by two smaller outages in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region. The outages were short-lived, and at the time, believed to be benign in nature.
Now, both the Ukrainian government and the private cybersecurity …read more
Source: Voice of America
