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As Russia again ramps up its attacks on Ukraine’s electricity grid ahead of the winter heating season, this time Kyiv has a new ally in its corner: El Niño.
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Kyiv → ramp → corner
Last week, 8,000 households around Ukraine temporarily went dark after the Kremlin’s first large-scale grid attack since last winter.
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households → go → winter
It was a disheartening preview of things to come: Just seven months ago, Ukrainians emerged from their harshest winter since the full-scale invasion, when relentless bombardment of energy plants and substations left many with no heat and few hours of daily power access for weeks at a time.
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bombardment → come → time
This week, Russia’s Defense Ministry made clear that more of the same is coming following a record campaign of strikes by Ukraine’s long-distance drones against Russian oil refineries in the past two months, which according to Kyiv have now taken out more than half of Russia’s refining capacity.
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which → make → capacity
Ukraine has good reason to be worried: Moscow’s offensive position in the air war has improved since this time last year, with the deployment of jet-powered drones and a gaping deficit in Ukraine’s missile defense supplies.
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position → have → supplies
But a number of factors are working in Ukraine’s favor.
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number → work → favor
Western aid for rebuilding the energy sector continues to flow in; some $250 million in energy hardware is expected for delivery between now and February, according to European officials.
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million → rebuild → officials
Ukraine is entering the winter with a natural gas surplus it didn’t have a year ago, and with a much higher share of its critical energy assets ensconced behind protective concrete barriers that are surprisingly effective at blunting damage from all but direct missile hits.
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that → enter → all
More utility-scale renewables are online, and people and businesses across Ukrainian society have learned from successive bleak winters how to muddle through with batteries, generators, blankets, and candles.
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people → learn → batteries
That’s the factor that turns a blackout from an inconvenience to a deadly threat.
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that → ’ → threat
This year, however, an exceptionally strong and possibly even record-breaking El Niño weather pattern — driven by warm ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific — is expected to make for a warm and wet winter in Europe.
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pattern → break → Europe
That’s good news for the EU, which is staring down a gas shortage.
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which → ’ → shortage
It could be problematic for Russia, which will also likely be warm but will be exposed to above-average food and fuel import prices.
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which → expose → prices
For Ukraine, it’s an asset.
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it → ’ → Ukraine
But I’m still looking for an apartment with a working fireplace.
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I → look → fireplace
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