Both Russia and Ukraine are warning of a possible attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, currently under Russian control. Employees have been ordered to stay home Friday and Russia could be preparing to disconnect the plant from Ukraine’s grid.
launched by Russian-aligned hackers who
to take down the websites of government offices, banks and health-care providers in the Baltic nation.Neither snow, nor sleet, nor war: Ukraine’s mail carriers carry on: First came the boom. Then the air raid siren. “Turn off the machines! Turn off the machines!” yelled a mail sorter. Moments before, workers in this southern Ukrainian city at the regional headquarters of Ukraine’s national postal service, Ukrposhta, had been absorbed in their early-morning shift.
Now, they scrambled to safety as the sound of the explosions grew louder. “It’s coming closer and closer!” yelled an employee, huddled in an entranceway with a group of colleagues. Forty-five minutes later, the all-clear was given. Slightly behind schedule — time they would make up in short order — the sorting facility’s roughly 45 employees returned to work.
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s postal service and privately owned courier companies have continued to make deliveries and carry out financial services, such as transferring money and paying pensions, even during the height of the fighting. Their job is not high-profile, but it is crucial to the functioning of Ukrainian society during wartime.
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