{"id":405985,"date":"2026-02-03T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405985\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:44:09","slug":"bbc-verify-mapping-strikes-on-ukraine-energy-plants-and-whats-happening-with-irans-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405985\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify: Mapping strikes on Ukraine energy plants and what&#8217;s happening with Iran&#8217;s internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian strikes on Ukraine\u2019s energy plants surge as country faces freezing days and nightspublished at 15:05 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:05 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve been reporting today on fresh attacks described by one of Ukraine\u2019s power companies as Russia\u2019s &#8220;most powerful blow&#8221; against the country\u2019s energy sector so far this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last Sunday marked the end of the so-called &#8220;energy truce&#8221; US President Donald Trump requested from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Moscow paused strikes on Ukrainian cities over three days at the end of last week as Ukraine continues to face the coldest winter of recent years. Temperatures in parts of the country dropped to -20C last night. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map showing where there have been air and drone strikes and shelling of energy plants in Ukraine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ad0efc87-9169-420a-9c84-e2c32bdda60c.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"1469\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the pause, January\u2019s attacks on Ukraine&#8217;s energy facilities far exceeded the monthly average for the full-scale invasion and left millions without power, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled) monitoring group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cEnergy companies say they are working around the clock on repairs, only for them to be undone by overnight strikes on power stations,\u201d says Olha Polishchuk, Acled\u2019s Eastern Europe research manager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polishchuk adds that the freezing winter has also had an impact on Russia\u2019s progress on the front line. \u201cThe extreme cold, combined with the winter holidays, has disrupted Russian recruitment, preventing any major advances on the battlefield,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Overnight minimum temperatures in Kyiv 1-23 January - showing them dropping as low as -17C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/695a7334-58ec-4f08-82f5-333370dcfc99.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"841\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graphics by Tom Shiel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian strikes on Ukraine\u2019s energy plants surge as country faces freezing days and nightspublished at 15:05 GMT 15:05&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-405985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}