Ukraine is pursuing unconventional methods to prevent an energy crisis this winter. According to The New York Times, the country has brought in an outdated power plant from Lithuania to help restore the grid, is renting floating power plants from Turkey, and has called for a permanent UN presence at substations to protect them from Russian attacks. However, Ukrainian officials admit that these efforts might not be sufficient.
Ukraine is pursuing unconventional methods to prevent an energy crisis this winter. According to The New York Times, the country has brought in an outdated power plant from Lithuania to help restore the grid, is renting floating power plants from Turkey, and has called for a permanent UN presence at substations to protect them from Russian attacks. However, Ukrainian officials admit that these efforts might not be sufficient.
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation."
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