MOSCOW - News reports say a widespread electricity outage has hit Luhansk, the second-largest city in Ukraine's separatist east, and the leader of the rebels who control it is claiming that's due to Ukrainian sabotage.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Associated Press: Wide power outage in rebel-held Ukrainian city
A fighter from the Donbass Ukrainian volunteer battalion wearing a Father Frost (the equivalent of Santa Claus) hat, stands near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lisichansk, Lugansk region on December 31, 2014. Relations between Ukraine and Russia have sunk to an historic low as a result of this year's ouster in Kyiv of a Moscow-backed president and the subsequent pro-Kremlin rebellion in the country's industrial east.
