Ukraine Strikes Power Plant Near Moscow Amid Renewed Peace Push (Worthy News Radio)

by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Authorities say Ukraine struck a major heat and power station in Russia’s Moscow region on Sunday using drones, igniting a large fire and cutting off heating for thousands of residents. The attack — one of Kyiv’s deepest strikes into Russian territory to date — unfolded as the United States was attempting to advance a peace proposal between the two nations.

Residents sounded terrified as Ukraine launches one of its biggest strikes yet on Russian infrastructure — hitting a major heat and power station and cutting heating for thousands in the Moscow region.

Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov says Ukrainian drones struck the Shatura Power Station, about 120 kilometers — or 75 miles — east of the Kremlin. Fireballs and thick black smoke rose into the night sky as emergency crews rushed in.

Ukraine also hit power and heating sites in Russian-held areas of Ukraine and across Russia’s border regions. But this is the first time significant damage has been inflicted by Kyiv’s forces on energy facilities serving Moscow and the wider region of more than 22 million people.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it downed 75 Ukrainian drones, including dozens over the Black Sea and several near Moscow. Vnukovo Airport briefly halted flights.

OLDEST PLANT

Shatura is one of Russia’s oldest power plants — founded under Vladimir Lenin after the Bolshevik Revolution. It once ran on peat but now relies mainly on natural gas.

In the fourth year of Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two, Russia had already battered Ukraine’s own energy network ahead of winter.
Now Kyiv has answered in kind — complicating U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to push both sides toward a peace deal he wants by Thanksgiving.

“I would like to get the peace… The Ukraine war with Russia should have never happened… We are trying to get it ended. One way or the other we have to get it ended,” Trump told reporters.

Trump added that if President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refuses the proposal, “he can continue to fight his little heart out.”

Washington’s 28-point plan would require Ukraine to cede territory, accept limits on its military, and drop its NATO ambitions — while also demanding some Russian withdrawals.

DIFFICULT CHOICE

Zelenskyy says Ukraine now faces “a very difficult choice… between losing our dignity or losing a key partner.”

British Prime Minister Keith Starmer agreed Ukraine must decide its own fate. “A just and lasting peace will only be just and lasting if there are security guarantees — and matters for Ukraine are always to be determined by Ukraine,” he stressed.

European leaders — joined by Canada and Japan — also rejected any proposal shrinking Ukraine’s borders or capping its military at 600,000 troops.

Ukrainian and U.S. envoys were meeting in Switzerland on Sunday with European security chiefs to discuss the U.S. plan, amid warnings it could “reward aggression” and undermine Europe’s post–Cold War security order.

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