“Due to the difficult situation in the energy system caused by previous
Russian attacks — in Sumy,
The main private network operator, DTEK, later announced on Telegram that the planned power outages in Kyiv had been canceled.
Russia has stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and railway network as winter approaches, raising fears that millions of people could be without power in freezing temperatures.
Power outages had already occurred across Ukraine last week, notably affecting parts of the capital for several hours.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of wanting to sow chaos with these strikes, which have also harmed the Ukrainian gas sector.
Ukraine, for its part, regularly targets oil refineries and hydrocarbon pipelines in Russia with drones, a strategy that has caused fuel prices in that country to rise since the summer.
- Authorities say the blast was allegedly set by three siblings fighting eviction from a family farm
- Italian premier and defense minister each expressed their condolences for the deaths of the carabinieri
MILAN: Three carabinieri militarized police officers were killed and
another 13 carabinieri and police officers were injured in an explosion
allegedly set by three middle-aged siblings who had been fighting
eviction from a family farm near the northeastern Italian city of Verona
early Tuesday, authorities said.
Two brothers and a sister, identified as Dino, Franco and Maria Luisa
Rampini, were detained in connection to the explosion in the town of
Castel d’Azzano, 10 kilometers (six miles) southwest Verona, police
said.
They were being investigated for premeditated murder, chief prosecutor Raffaele Tito told reporters at the scene.
“While our carabinieri were carrying out a judicial order, they were
hit by an intentional explosion of a gas tank,’’ Verona’s carabinieri
commander, Col. Claudio Pagano, told Sky TG24. He called it “an
absolutely crazy gesture.”
Tito said the eviction had been carefully planned. “The reaction was so
violent, that it was hard to predict,” the prosecutor said.
The two-story farmhouse had been filled with gas, and the explosion was
set off when authorities opened the door in the predawn hours, regional
governor Luca Zaia told Sky TG24.
It was the second time authorities moved to evict the siblings. Another
attempt was thwarted last year when the Rampinis threatened to blow the
house up, Zaia said.
Maria Luisa Rampini told Corriere della Sera last year that the
siblings had been fighting what they perceived to be an unjust
foreclosure of the family farm.
“They took away the agricultural company, the land and now the house,
probably,” Maria Luisa Rampini said on a video filmed during last year’s
attempt at evicting the siblings.
“Today they wanted to carry out the eviction. We are opposing it in
every way. We have filled the house with gas to be able to fight,” she
said on the video posted Tuesday by the newspaper.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and Defense Minister Guido Crosetto each
expressed their condolences for the deaths of the carabinieri, part of a
national militarized police force that plays a central law enforcement
role in Italy.
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