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Today’s must-read
On a grey Sunday afternoon, 75-year-old Vira Kurylenko sits in a warming tent, bundled in layers of thick clothing, clutching a paper cup of hot tea.
It’s a chilly, bleary-eyed day: just nine hours ago, dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles shrieked into the capital, destroying a swath of warehouses and several homes on the city’s eastern edge.
“This night was very scary,” Kurylenko says, sighing sadly.
Sitting beside Kurylenko, her friend Tamila Ivanenko, 70, a lifelong resident of the area, says, “Unfortunately, the war causes all these issues right now, so we have to sit here without water and electricity and heat.”
Kyiv residents Vira Kurylenko, 75, and Tamila Ivanenko, 70, warm up at emergency warming tents. (Melissa Martin / Free Press)
That has been the story of this, Ukraine’s fourth winter of all-out war. It has been several years since Russia launched a long and ongoing campaign to destroy the country’s civilian electrical grid. Last year, that effort intensified, with massive missile attacks striking at Kyiv’s thermal plants and the gas facilities that help drive them. Melissa Martin has the story.
On the bright side
Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible to the naked eye.
It’s what’s known as a planetary parade, which happens when multiple planets appear to line up in the sky at once. The planets aren’t in a straight line, but are close together on one side of the sun.
Skygazers can usually spot two or three planets after sunset, according to NASA. Hangouts of four or five that can be glimpsed with the naked eye are less common and occur every few years. Last year featured lineups of six and all seven planets. The Associated Press has more here.
People look up to the sky from an observatory near Avren, Bulgaria. (Petar Petrov / The Associated Press files)
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