Eastern Europe holds the key to keeping Ukraine's power on

Cars are seen at a street during a transport collapse due to subway stopping during a power blackout after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine December 16, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/

In Lithuania, a giant, disused electrical transformer built in 1980 in present-day Ukraine has been dusted off and prepared for shipment. It will travel by sea to Romania and then back to Ukraine, possibly in the coming weeks.

Rokas Masiulis, head of Lithuania's power grid, said his company was searching warehouses for anything else Ukraine might need to repair the damage done to its electricity system by repeated Russian missile attacks.