It only took one home-made bomb to knock out a sizeable chunk of Berlin's grid for days
The German government is keen to learn from Ukraine’s experience defending its electricity grid against attacks, after experiencing recent blackouts caused by sabotaged power lines in its capital.
For more than four years, Russia has battered Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones – at times, much of the country, including its capital Kyiv, was subject to hours of blackout.
Yet, somehow, Berlin found itself in the same boat in January when left-wing extremists with a single firebomb caused the city’s worst multi-day power cut since the Second World War.
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