How Ukraine tamed Russian missile barrages and kept the lights on

RUSSIA WAS already a month into its campaign to bomb Ukraine’s energy infrastructure when the man in charge of Ukraine’s power grid, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, saw a fleet of headed towards his office. The attack on October 17th at Ukrenergo’s Kyiv headquarters sent many of his colleagues running for the shelters. Soldiers stayed above ground to try to shoot down the drones. Mr Kudrytsky headed off in his car to help colleagues. “Some of us have experienced five, ten, 20 attacks over this winter and at one point you ,” he recalls.