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In her high-rise Kyiv apartment, Vita Vigul, an entrepreneur, showed how she and her husband had prepared for winter: rechargeable LED lighting strips, a propane-fueled hot plate, a a small pellet stove in case the city’s central heating system, the largest in Europe, stops functioning.

The neighbor, who declined to give her name, cited instances in which he allegedly shot her chickens with “a high-powered pellet gun.”

Pictures showed she had participated in protests and that she had been shot at by security forces with pellet guns.

Smashing a fuel pellet with lasers falls under the category of inertial confinement fusion.

He doesn't mean they needed more snacks, instead the NIF laser was only just powerful enough to ignite the fuel pellet.