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What are the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Russia continues to attack Ukraine's energy grid during one of the most brutal winters in recent years. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports people in Kiev have electricity for just an hour and a half to two hours a day, with temperatures well below freezing.
Ukraine's largest energy provider, DTEK, said hundreds of Russian drones and missiles targeted the electricity network Saturday, damaging two thermal power plants and key high-voltage substations. Damage to those substations forced operators to reduce output at nuclear power plants, leading to a significant loss of available electricity in Ukraine.
Ukraine gets about 70 percent of its electricity from nuclear power. In his nightly address Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia continues to attack in massive strikes that are contrary to ongoing diplomatic work to end the war. This is a level of attack that no terrorist in the world has ever allowed itself, said Zelensky.
Russia, he said, must feel the response of the entire world. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
The State Department says it's removing posts from its official accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office in 2025. And Pierre Shannon Bond reports they'll be internally archived but no longer easily accessible by the public.
State Department staff were told anyone who wants to see posts from the Obama, Biden or first Trump terms are will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request, according to an employee who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. That's different from how the government typically archives the online footprint of previous administrations.
For example, ex-accounts for the president and the White House are handed over to the new administration, and old posts move to a publicly available archive account. The State Department told NPR it wants to, quote, speak with one voice on social media. The move comes as the Trump administration has removed wide swaths of information from government websites. Shannon Bond, NPR News.
Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro says he saw inhumane conditions when he toured an ICE adult detention center near San Antonio yesterday. Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more.
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