After the removal of Viktor Yanukovych from the Ukrainian presidency he retreated to Russia. There had been a year of protest to remove him over his pro-Russia policies and the general desire to join the European Union. Yanukovych gave his backers the patina of legitimacy for Russia to invade. Putin’s aim? The Crimea, by whatever means necessary, be it propaganda, espionage, or violations of the Geneva Conventions. In 2014 he largely succeeded, but this was not enough. This episode is about the 2015 attempted takeover of the Ukrainian power grid, what we can now see as a preliminary to the invasion of 2021.