{"id":533716,"date":"2022-11-02T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533716"},"modified":"2022-11-02T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T08:31:06","slug":"ukrainians-grapple-with-power-outages-as-winter-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ukrainians-grapple-with-power-outages-as-winter-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainians grapple with power outages as winter approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decorative candles Yaroslav Vedmid bought more than a year ago were never meant to be lit, but the dried wax that now clings to them attests to how they&#8217;ve been used almost nightly \u2014 a consequence of power cuts across Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Seated at the dinner table with his wife in a village on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, the two can&#8217;t count the number of times they&#8217;ve eaten in the dark since Russian attacks triggered the blackouts beginning in early October.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has openly declared its intention to target the country&#8217;s energy infrastructure and drive the nation into the cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you&#8217;re relying on electricity, the worst thing is that you can&#8217;t plan \u2026 Psychologically it&#8217;s very uncomfortable,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decorative candles Yaroslav Vedmid bought more than a year ago were never meant to be lit, but the dried wax that now clings to them attests to how they&#8217;ve been used almost nightly \u2014 a consequence of power cuts across Ukraine. Seated at the dinner table with his wife in a village on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, the two can&#8217;t count the number of times they&#8217;ve eaten in the dark since Russian attacks triggered the blackouts beginning in early October. Moscow has openly declared its intention to target the country&#8217;s energy infrastructure and drive the nation into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}