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Overnight strikes knock out power in Ukraine
Overnight Russian missile and drone strikes left parts of Ukraine without power on Saturday morning, Ukraine’s energy ministry said on Telegram.
The strikes hit energy infrastructure in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, according to the ministry.
Crews were working on Saturday to restore power in the Odesa, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions are without power as of this morning, with hourly outage schedules and capacity limitation schedules for industrial consumers and businesses in effect.
EU foreign policy chief says US is ‘still our biggest ally’ after release of policy paper supporting Europe’s far-right
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Europe and the war in Ukraine.
The Trump administration released a policy paper on Friday that made explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.
The 33-page US National Security Strategy, which includes a signed introduction from Donald Trump, appears to push the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, saying several countries risk becoming “majority non-European” and Europe faces “the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure”.
Speaking at the Doha Forum, an annual diplomatic conference in Qatar’s capital on Saturday, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addressed the policy paper by reiterating that the “US is still our biggest ally,” AFP reports. “Of course, there’s a lot of criticism, but I think some of it is also true,” Kallas said.
Kallas continued: “I think we haven’t always seen eye to eye on different topics, but I think the overall principle is still there. We are the biggest allies, and we should stick together.”
