Zaporozhye NPP will create a backup source of electricity at the expense of thermal power plants

MOSCOW, November 25 - RIA Novosti. Russia is creating a reserve source of power supply for the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, Rosatom said.
“Given the great importance of the energy supply reserve for the nuclear safety of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, especially in winter, we have decided, despite the direct threat to the lives of the personnel employed in these works, to proceed with the restoration of the open switchgear of the Zaporizhzhya TPP,” the state corporation said in a statement.
As noted, the Russian side has already tried to do this, but each time "the answer from the Ukrainian side was targeted shelling" of the thermal power plant.
Now the nuclear power plant receives electricity through two high-voltage lines from the Ukrainian side, "which, as the events of recent weeks show, are regularly and, as a rule, switched off at the same time."

"How Kyiv behaves will clearly show the real attitude of the leadership of Ukraine to ensuring the nuclear safety of Europe's largest nuclear power plant," the state-owned company concluded.
The day before, the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, said that two power units at the nuclear power plant continue to operate at low power, and heating in the city of Energodar is provided by diesel generators.
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper, next to Energodar. This is the largest plant of this type in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity - it has six power units with a capacity of one gigawatt each. Since March, the facility has been controlled by the Russian military. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to regularly shell Energodar and the territory of the nuclear power plant adjacent to the city.

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Europe accuses US of profiting from war
EU officials attack Joe Biden over sky-high gas prices, weapons sales and trade as Vladimir Putin’s war threatens to destroy Western unity.

November 24, 2022 POLITICO

Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration and now accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU countries suffer.

“The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons,” one senior official told POLITICO.

The explosive comments — backed in public and private by officials, diplomats and ministers elsewhere — follow mounting anger in Europe over American subsidies that threaten to wreck European industry. The Kremlin is likely to welcome the poisoning of the atmosphere among Western allies.

“We are really at a historic juncture,” the senior EU official said, arguing that the double hit of trade disruption from U.S. subsidies and high energy prices risks turning public opinion against both the war effort and the transatlantic alliance. “America needs to realize that public opinion is shifting in many EU countries.”

The EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell called on Washington to respond to European concerns. “Americans — our friends — take decisions which have an economic impact on us,” he said in an interview with POLITICO.

The biggest point of tension in recent weeks has been Biden’s green subsidies and taxes that Brussels says unfairly tilt trade away from the EU and threaten to destroy European industries. Despite formal objections from Europe, Washington has so far shown no sign of backing down.

At the same time, the disruption caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is tipping European economies into recession, with inflation rocketing and a devastating squeeze on energy supplies threatening blackouts and rationing this winter.

As they attempt to reduce their reliance on Russian energy, EU countries are turning to gas from the U.S. instead — but the price Europeans pay is almost four times as high as the same fuel costs in America. Then there’s the likely surge in orders for American-made military kit as European armies run short after sending weapons to Ukraine.

It's all got too much for top officials in Brussels and other EU capitals. French President Emmanuel Macron said high U.S. gas prices were not “friendly” and Germany’s economy minister has called on Washington to show more “solidarity” and help reduce energy costs.

Ministers and diplomats based elsewhere in the bloc voiced frustration at the way Biden’s government simply ignores the impact of its domestic economic policies on European allies.
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UK is training thousands of Ukrainian recruits using the British army's battle-tested expertise, a report by Britain's Forces News has revealed.

Ukrainian soldiers were trained at a secret location in the north of England - the 5-week accelerated course included handling weapons, learning tactics and positional warfare, and first aid on the battlefield.

Speaking militarliy:
5 weeks is barely enough for them to be trained in basic tactics if they hadn't gone through full training before that.

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“The final meeting of the autumn session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Warsaw began in the dark. Lights were turned off in the hall as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine”: They didn’t want to turn off the heating as a sign of solidarity
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The West demands that Russia stop strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, but in 1999, during the NATO operation against Yugoslavia, the alliance's forces themselves bombed such facilities with the support of the "world community."

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