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danny aeberhard, has more on this story. this is a major achievement for ukraine. basically, russia in october started a huge campaign of attacks on its energy infrastructure. all thermal and hydroelectric power plants were damaged during those assaults, and also lots of substations as well. substations are very important, they take often months themselves to repair, let alone the damage to the power plants. so the energy minister, herman halushchenko, has basically hailed a titanic effort by electrical engineers to get the system up and running. he said that now, no ukrainians have restrictions, and he has also praised the work of international partners. and he s also praised the work of international partners. ukraine has been trying to source critical components from about a0 countries. and, danny, what does this mean for the state of the war
let s go to our europe regional editor, danny aeberhard, who s in the newsroom for us. danny, what is the significance of this? this is a major achievement for ukraine. basically, russia in october started a huge campaign of 0ctober started a huge campaign of attacks on its energy infrastructure, all thermo and hydroelectric power plants were damaged during those assaults. and also lots of substations as well, substations are very important, they take often months themselves to repair, let alone the damage to the power plants, so the energy minister has basically hailed a titanic effort by electrical engineers to get the system up and running. he said that now no ukrainians have restrictions and he has also praised the work of international partners, ukraine has been trying to source
a huge campaign of attacks on its energy infrastructure. all thermal and hydroelectric power plants were damaged during those assaults, and also lots of substations as well. substations are very important, they take often months themselves to repair, let alone the damage to the power plants. so the energy minister, herman halushchenko, has basically hailed a titanic effort by electrical engineers to get the system up and running. he said that now no ukrainians have restrictions, and he has also praised the work of international partners. ukraine has been trying to source critical components from about a0 countries. and, danny, what does this mean for the state of the war more broadly and any suggestion that russia could restart its attacks again? well, clearly, ukraine isn t saying that it s out of the woods,
parts of ukraine it regularly gets down to subzero so they will be welcoming the warm weather to come. danny, thanks for that. there s uncertainty about access to a widely used abortion pill in the united states after conflicting court rulings. a federaljudge in texas suspended government approval of mifepristone after anti abortion activists claimed it wasn t safe. the biden administration appealed against the ruling and a federal judge ruled access to the drug must be preserved in 17 states. samantha simmonds explains. this row is all about this drug, mifepristone, which has been in common use for 20 years as a widely used anti abortion drug. it was given full fda approval and tested for its safety back in 2000 as you can see in this headline here in new york times. now, though, a trump appointed judge in texas, this man, judge matthew kacsmaryk, has ordered a hold on the approval of the drug after an anti abortion group argued that its safety was never properly tested.