apologies if this has been previously posted .. but there is a...

apologies if this has been previously posted .. but there is a story that the russians and ukrainians were going to negotiate to stop targeting each others power infrastructure - but the kursk invasion put a halt to that ..

Ukraine’s offensive derails secret efforts for partial cease-fire with Russia, officials say

KYIV — Ukraine and Russia were set to send delegations to Doha this month to negotiate a landmark agreement halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure on both sides, diplomats and officials familiar with the discussions said, in what would have amounted to a partial cease-fire and offered a reprieve for both countries.

But the indirect talks, with the Qataris serving as mediators and meeting separately with the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, were derailed by Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s western Kursk region last week, according to the officials. The possible agreement and planned summit have not been previously reported.

For more than a year, Russia has pounded Ukraine’s power grid with a barrage of cruise missiles and drone strikes, causing irreparable damage to power stations and rolling blackouts across the country. Meanwhile, Ukraine has struck Russia’s oil facilities with long-range drone attacks that have set ablaze refineries, depots and reservoirs, reducing Moscow’s oil refining by an estimated 15 percent and raising gas prices around the world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/17/kursk-ukraine-russia-energy-ceasefire/

a cold winter in store for ukrainians ... and hopefully a VERY COLD WINTER for europeans and americans (they might regret blowing up nordstream)