Russian missiles pounded energy infrastructure across Ukraine again on Wednesday, leaving most Ukrainians without power, according to the country’s Energy Ministry.
“Today’s missile attack led to a temporary blackout of all nuclear, most thermal, and hydroelectric power plants. Power transmission facilities were also hit,” the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said, according to Interfax Ukraine.
The ministry said that as a result, the “vast majority” of electricity consumers in Ukraine are facing outages and emergency blackouts. It said that work was being done to repair the blackouts but said that it will take time.
Moldova also experienced blackouts as a result of the strikes, as much of its energy infrastructure is connected with Ukraine’s. “We have massive power outages across the country,” said Moldova’s Infrastructure Minister Andrei Spinu, according to The Associated Press.
Last week, Ukraine’s prime minister said Russian missile strikes across Ukraine disabled nearly half of the country’s energy infrastructure, and Kyiv reportedly told its Western backers that it might not be able to recover from more Russian strikes on the power grid.
Russia had previously avoided the large-scale targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure but began employing the tactic in October after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland.
The Russian attacks have left Ukrainian civilians in a desperate situation as they cannot power or heat their homes as winter is approaching and temperatures continue to drop. The head of YASNO, a private energy provider in Ukraine, said that Ukrainians will most likely have to live with blackouts until the end of March.
In a world only lite by fire life was “nasty brutish and short” to quote Thomas Hobbes’ (1651).
As the wheel turns Ukraine is a world only lite by fire.
Maybe this can at least bring some sense to the people in charge to START TALKING instead of dragging out an absolutely unnecessary bloodbath.
Donbass lived like this 8 winters and no one cared.
At least, Russia is not bombing the residential areas.
Ukrainians targeted the civilians in Donbass all those years and The West encouraged this.
Zelensky/Biden defenders have to go out of their way to ignore this part of the recent history of the area. What it portrays to me is the deep, built-in hatred of Russia and Russians here in the west.
For all their sophisticated manipulations of modern science, Americans are as ignorant and biased a lot as the rest of the human race, not to mention their adherence to the meme of the White Man’s burden.
Maybe we should have told Ukraine and Ukraine told Russia, they would never become a NATO nation, and would declare neutrality. Simple dimple.
Is attack on civllian infrastructure a war crime? What is a war crime and by what internationly recignized laws is it defined? International laws are collection if separate bodiies of treaties, of which one is UN Charter and anny UN conventions, etc. But the most important are — precedents, For better or worse, precedents will be used if for no reason — for not conceding weakness. US set all precedents in Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya. And before in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. The first thing that goes in any action is infrastructure. Not just dual use , but civilian, as are irrigation systems, farmland, granaries, pharmaceutical facilities,
Russia has a clear strategy of not attacking dual use infrastructure first. First targets are military, and related infrastructure. Once pipeline was destroyed and them Kirch bridge — dual use infrastructure is now taget. Urban infrastructure including cell towers are still not fully targeted. Escallation is still under way. Russia has no need to hurry. It has superior capabiltues,
And it can afford to wait and see the outcome of pressure. It appears that it wants to achieve additional territorial gains in areas of Russian populated regions through negotiations.
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/news/1077911-ukraina-russkii-oblast
RIA Novosti: Ukraine mobilizes people in Russian-speaking regions
It took some time for Zelenky to grab ethnic Russians off the street so they can kill Russian service members.
I don’t know how credulous this story is.
Amerikkka will fight Russia to the last frozen Ukrainian. I pity those folks, having to exist as they do for ZelBoy’s ego.
Coup, anyone?
Someone call Victoria and let her know she needs to bake some more brownies.
The most sorrowful event in recent history for American leadership was the end of the cold war.