Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia had destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power plants since it began launching strikes against energy infrastructure across the country last week.
“Since October 10, 30% of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country,” Zelensky said.
Russia began launching large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure on Monday, October 10, after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge that connects the Crimean peninsula to mainland Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the strikes would continue in response to more Ukrainian “terror attacks.”
Russian attacks on energy infrastructure continued on Tuesday, and Ukrainian officials reported strikes that caused power outages and cut off water supplies. A spokesman for Ukraine’s emergency services said that over 1,000 Ukrainian villages and towns remain without power since Russia’s bombardment began last week.
Zelensky also said on Tuesday that there was “no space left for negotiations with Putin’s regime.” In response to Putin annexing the Ukrainian territory under Russia’s control, Zelensky signed a decree ruling out peace talks with Russia as long as Putin is the president.
In the face of increased Russian strikes on Ukraine, the US has reiterated its plans to support Kyiv for the long term and has shown no interest in pursuing diplomacy. The Washington Post reported last week that US officials have ruled out pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia even though they don’t believe either side could win the war “outright.”
“US officials have ruled out pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia” – of course they would rule it out. A lot of money was invested in the last 30 years for converting Ukraine into a bridgehead for the crusade against Russians. This war against Russians on Ukraine territory is a great geopolitical achievement of American oligarchy.
These are the kind of articles that make me question the MSM headlines of the last 8 months. How can an utterly defeated, deflated military inflict damage?
The reality, as you well know, is that Russia can destroy the entirety of the Ukraine’s infrastructure anytime it wants to, and has always had that capacity from the first day of the SMO until now, and will continue to have it into the foreseeable future.
That type of “shock and awe” campaign has been typical of US military campaigns for quite some time. Serbia and Iraq being the two biggest examples. Russia has refrained from doing this, at least until now, because, unlike the USA, it has no desire to inflict this kind of destruction. The Russians’ goals are quite reasonable, and always have been; they have never sought the obliteration of the Ukraine, or its economy, the way the USA did with Serbia and Iraq.
Russia wanted the Ukraine neo Nazi regime to agree to those reasonable terms in February, without a shot being fired. That’s what the move on Kiev was about, at least in the main. When that didn’t work, as the Ukraine, backed by NATO, chose war instead, Russia offered the regime a negotiated settlement, and perhaps was willing to take half a loaf. That might have worked, had not NATO (and, perhaps, the neo Nazis) not again flexed their muscles, and cowed Zelensky into reneging. Sooo, Russia settled in the for a longer war option, slowly taking territory in the South and East. This has worked, but not completely, and not quickly and dramatically, and now the regime is upping the ante with its counterattacks, the attack on the bridge, attacks inside Crimea and Russia, terrorist attacks, and so forth. Russia, perhaps, now feels that the long war will take too long, and so, reluctantly, it is re upping the ante, resorting to US style attacks on infrastructure.
if it is true that russian military has wiped-out 30% of this poor country’s electrical generation, then this thing you say about russia somehow respecting ukraine’s economy makes no sense at all. tbey are wrecking the place, aside from all the horrors of people getting killed and injured.
The USA prevents any negotiated settlement, they are after the Russian resources, LG, OIL ,and control of markets, and they have a shock & Awe and PROFITS method. War is business as usual, look at the ruins they left behind in the ME. Go back to both WW, all the same reasons . Germany in the same situation again, for the third time.
Why sanctions against Venezuela, and Afghanistan?
Venezuela has oil and gas and Afghanistan has Lithium and other minerals, they robbed the nations bank accounts too. They are motivated by greed, nothing else.
For Russia it is existential, defensive, for the USA it is all about wealth and power, not for freedom and democracy, that is propaganda.
The UKRAINIANS ARE ONLY CANNON FODDER.
Zelensky is a very wealthy man now. He gets paid for throwing his country and people under the bus. He has lots of company from other NATO nations.
Did you read what I wrote? Russia did not start this war, the USA and the Neo Nazi regime did. Russia tried to do things “the easy way,” but the Neo Nazi regime, backed by the USA, said no. Said no before the war started, said no when the Russians tried to bum rush them in Kiev, and said no when it looked like a deal could be worked out after that. And now is saying no by counterattacking, by widening the war to Crimea and Russia, and by engaging in terrorist attacks. The attack on infrastructure is more or less a last resort by Russia, a doing things “the hard way,” because the “easy way” didn’t work due to Kiev’s intransigance. As for the “horrors,” please. The number of civilian casualties, even as reported by the regime, and even assuming all of them are caused by the Russians, are not even what the USA would consider to be “collateral damage.”
I would authorize congress to ship say, 20 million candles to support the war effort.
Solar panels and LEDs are more green for the environment.
I would like to handcuff all the IDIOTS in the Biden administration and State department ship them to Kiev and put them in the middle of the MAIDAN through air attacks , to give them a taste of their malice and torture they inflict on others including children. Double time for senile Biden and Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland.
It’s difficult to watch the unfortunates lacking power bundled up in multiple overcoats, cooking outdoors over a fire and undoubtedly freezing in their homes. I would bet my life that these folks would be in favor of a negotiated settlement.
So, how about it, ZelBoy? Why not grow a pair and stand up to your Nazis, the United Snakes and NATO and tell them, enough is enough? As you should have done from the beginning?
I highly doubt that YOU lack heat, water and electricity. Your people whom you purport to care about are suffering deprivations that YOU will never experience, all for your immense ego.
Winter is coming.
Maybe if you could hit him with a 2x 4 over the head he gets it?
ZelBoy, that is a nice name for the guy in the green T-shirt.
Oh , IF ONLY, Renate!
I ain’t bad with my fists either 😉
So much insanity in Washington, they are the real danger to the whole planet, a demented man with the finger on the red button, it was never that dangerous before. The Cuba missile crisis was not that dangerous the heads of state in Russia and the USA had brains.
We need regime change, we need pest control in the state department, and WH, and congress, for God’s sake.
“Don’t you understand what I’m trying to say
And don’t you feel the fear I’m feeling today
If the button is pushed there’s no running away
They’re be no one to save with the world in a grave
Take a look around ya boy, it’s bound to scare ya boy
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
You don’t believe we’re on the Eve of Destruction”
The Biden cabal and congress , the people who should are not likely to understand, they are in la la land.
and still not a single word about any bioweapons labs that uncle sam “may or may not have” been operating in the ukraine.
https://mronline.org/2022/03/17/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological-research-facilities-worried-russia-may-seize-them/
WTF is the real elephant in the ukraine room.
edit) = how many US tax dollars will it take until people realize that Raytheon & General Electric etc are raking it in hand over fist.
what.
The real elephant is energy, Gas, Oil = PROFIT.
How could it be other wise, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Russia and the UAE. The other elephant is markets, China and the EU.