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  • A man looks at a smartphone at Demiivska metro station after train service is suspended due to a large-scale voltage drop in the power grid in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 31, 2026. Metro trains and escalators in the capital are temporarily halted, with passengers using stations as shelters. The voltage drop also leaves all districts of Kyiv without water supply, triggers emergency power outages in the city and region, and affects Moldova, where several settlements lose electricity. (Photo by Danylo Antoniuk/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NO USE RUSSIA. NO USE BELARUS. (Photo by Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Europe

    ‘Russia is the only one responsible’: Moldova imposes 60-day energy emergency after Russian strikes in Ukraine

    By The Associated Press, Stephen McGrath, and others
  • Ilan ShorLeadership

    Sanctioned Moldovan oligarch close to Putin allowed to run Facebook ads calling for political revolution

    By David Klepper, Stephen McGrath, and others
  • Moldova’s parliamentary candidate Ilan Shor, businessman, leader of his self-named party and the mayor of the town of Orhei, arrives to meet with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. – On the campaign trail, businessman Ilan Shor insists corruption is Moldova’s most pressing issue, despite himself having been convicted in a fraud case dubbed “the crime of the century”. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP) (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Facebook ran ads for a Kremlin-connected Moldovan oligarch sanctioned by the US targeting the country’s pro-Western government

    By David Klepper, Stephen McGrath, and others
  • Vladimir PutinFinance

    Russia’s Gazprom threatens to cut last remaining supply of natural gas to Europe

    By Stephen McGrath and The Associated Press