New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- Night strikes carve fresh blackouts across the north as Kyiv targets a Bryansk chemical site and talk of a Trump-Putin summit stalls again

KYIV- The first cold breaths of late October moved across the Chernihiv forests before dawn, streetlights were dark, elevators sat idle, phones flickered on battery savers. Hours earlier, Russian drones and missiles had torn into the grid again, Ukrainian officials said, plunging hundreds of thousands into blackout and reminding the country that the energy war, now in its third winter, is not a season but a strategy, a pattern that mirrors our previous reporting on reserve-power routines in the capital, even as Washington and its European partners recite familiar talking points a...