Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on Wednesday that Russia is working on new ways to disrupt Western arms supplies to Ukraine, signaling that Russia will start targeting more Ukrainian infrastructure.
“We observe that Ukraine is receiving more and more and better Western weapons,” Lavrov said in an interview on Russian TV, according to Al Jazeera. He said strikes on “railway lines, bridges and tunnels” are being considered.
Russia has been pounding Ukrainian energy infrastructure since October, leaving millions of Ukrainians without power and heat for the winter. But Lavrov’s comments suggest that Russia will be hitting other types of infrastructure.
The Russian diplomat said that the strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid have already helped disrupt the supply of weapons but added that more will be done. “And I am convinced that there are other plans being applied in this regard,” he said.
Lavrov and other Russian officials have stressed that more US and other Western military aid will escalate and drag out the war.
On Thursday, Russia launched another barrage on Ukraine’s power grid, striking targets with missiles and drones. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry suggested that it was one of the heaviest Russian barrages in the war, writing on Twitter that “Russia had been saving one of the most massive missile attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion for the last days of the year.”
Russia’s barrages on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure began after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland. In recent weeks, Ukraine has stepped up drone attacks deep inside Russia, and Moscow has stepped up its bombardment.
And just like the US constantly bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail, it will cost a lot, slow down the supplies but not stop it.
The Vietnam War was a totally different war , there is no jungle in Ukraine to hide the supply routes , Ukraine is mostly flat .
You don’t need jungles to hide military hardware and flat terrain doesn’t make it easier. It’s not just the type of terrain, it’s also the size of the land, Ukrainian equipment movement (cover / concealment) techniques, and search and surveillance capabilities of the Russian Army.
That is true it is different war. And the terrain is different. But so are the weapons.
Zzzzzz
Try to get some exercise, go to bed early and eat right. You might not so easily fall asleep at the computer.
ZZZZZZZZZZ!
Are we having fun yet?…WWIII is going to be is going to be quick but painful…
Disrupt or destroy the evil pentagon which is the same shape as satan’s pentagram
Also Satan doesn’t have the copyright on the pentagram. It’s just an interesting shape from an esthetic and mathematical viewpoint. It appears nowhere in the Bible but it used to be the symbol of Christianity, proto-catholics mainly, before they adapted the cross as their main symbol. Then there is the pentacle, which is just the pentagram with a circle around it. And when you turn it upside down it magically becomes it’s opposite, much like other objects that lack a horizontal line of symmetry, like a crucifix, an American flag, a glass of milk, a television set etc.
OK i will be turning a glass of milk upside down in celebration of ‘opposite day’, which might be today or any other day of my choosing.
edit = ‘opposite day’ is officially observed on Jan 25th, but also commonly observed on the 25th of every month. so Christmas could feasibly be considered to be ‘opposite day’.
OK I genuinely did not know it was (in the process of becoming) an actual holiday in the US. Now I’m afraid I shall not be able to un-know this.
lol 🙂
Don’t think of an elephant.
Satan and Jesus, all fictitious characters created by humans.
Fictitious or not, there are some good ground rules…
At least Jesus being the son of a god.
Thor was also the son of a god
Creatively put L21.
Donna, This is ww3; The US and its European colonies are attacking Russia, Iran, China and their associated nations. It was April 2022 when the US leader said the Russian president had to go and Russia had to be weakened so it couldn’t ever defend itself again, as it is doing so well now.
Fair enough
It’s starting to look as if the recent World Bank estimate of $525 and $630 billion to reconstruct Ukraine will have to be increased. (Naturally, that implies that there will still be a Ukraine to reconstruct.)
When the war is over , all the Russian money that has been will be used to rebuild Ukraine that`s a given , and Americas lackey`s will go along with it.
No Russian Money has been seized.
No Russian Gold was taken.
All that was taken was 1s and 0s in a computer register.
Data representing credits. Nothing more.
Sure, but they represented credits that the Russian’s could exchange for real goods, which they cannot now exchange for real goods – so how does it not come to the same?
It’s about time.
Are you rooting for the Russians or rooting against Ukrainians or both?
This is what I support; Peace, moderate prosperity, good health, education, healing Earth, and more fun.
Ditto that!
Which side would you root for in a war between:
NAZI Germany and Russia?
Britain and Nazi Germany?
The USA and Nazi Germany?
Would you “both sides” that one as well?
Does anyone think we will know the true death toll of this war when it’s all said and done? Because the runors of the numbers of dead on both sides are absolutely Staggering if even off by 75%!
Well you won`t get the Russian numbers of their dead wounded ect because all news has been blocked , you are only being fed Western Anti Russian Propaganda , NATO governments don`t want you to know the truth , read the book , HOW THE WEST BOUGHT WAR TO THE UKRAINE , a book in my opinion everyone should read .
And neither will the Russian people get the numbers of dead/wounded Russians. That will remain a state secret for a long time.
It’s easy for the Russian people to know their casualties.
The Russian state cannot hide it from the people.
It won’t even need to be a long time.
It’s as simple as everyone who personally knew a friend, family member or colleague who went to war and never came back to post their name and ID on a website, get an NGO to verify and clean the list.
Putin should have been doing this from day one , the war would now be over , it`s only NATO weapons that are enabling the Ukraine NAZIS to continue the war.
Yep, And Ukraine would’ve been completed annexed Hitler style, all in the name of world peace.
There is a good chance that this prediction comes true. It will be tough for the US to get Russia to annex the western third of Ukraine due to the large reconstruction costs associated with that, but with adequate pressure we might be able to make it happen.
Most likely, though. Russia will be rebuilding essentially the pro-Russian eastern side, while US corporations will own and control the anti-Russian western side.
And then, as you said, peace will happen. The remaining part of the war is the fight for the new US-Russian boundaries.
And yeah – we won’t OFFICIALLY annex it. Part of US propaganda is that annexing is a bad thing. US corporations will cooperate to control whatever government emerges there.
Russia will be rebuilding all of Ukraine and probably also former Warsaw Alliance counties. After they are liberated from Anglo-American occupation.
Hopeful thinking!
Not entirely. They are doing terrific job rebuilding Mariupol.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/79tEjzoViFXl/
“due to the large reconstruction costs” Russia does not care about reconstruction. See East Germany and East Berlin after WW2.
They are already rebuilding Eastern Ukraine / Russia. And the US has confirmed Russian claims in 2 ways. First of all we brag when we blow up buildings there that they just built as US successes, and second of all the US has accused Russia of trying to bribe people in the new areas by building new civilian infrastructure.
Note that in an earlier speech, Biden talked about spending money in Africa for economic development. Not to help the people there, but to counter Chinese influence.
It should also be pointed that after the US installed a pro-US government in Honduras (Obama/Hillary), when Trump talked about caging people trying to cross our border and separating children from their parents, caravans formed to flee to the US. Apparently Trump was less brutal to them then the US installed governnment. The same type of arrangement the US would set up in Ukraine – maximum US corporation profit.
Profits over People, the American way….
That was actually the Soviet Union, if memory serves…
Difficult to know what Russia cares about, as Russia is the designation for a state. Lotsa people…
You are correct is was the USSR. Considering how Russia likes to destroyed civilians buildings which have no military value and I don’t see them in a hurry to rebuild what they just destroyed.
No, but BlackRock is in a hurry to buy up what’s left of Ukraine. See the very informative article on this in The American Conservative.
You always seem to end up characterizing the foreign policies of nations (Russia in instances here) as if they were driven by impulses associated with individuals. Russia is a state, and like most states, has a complex assemblage of motivations and interests. When it comes to something Russia “does” on the world stage, it is misleading to analyze that doing as if Russia were a person with the personality of an individual.
So to say “Russia likes” is just silly. If we read a report that Russia has made a statement of position X at the UN, we presume that an individual read a statement reflecting the correlated work product of possibly hundreds or even thousands of people.
I’m not trying to express an opinion as to whether or not there may be people in Russia who “like” to blow up things.
I too have read the Russian position on attacks made on infrastructure for the purpose of crippling Ukraine’s capacity to run trains, and I conclude that we are looking at Russian policy re the capacity of Ukrainians to transport weapons, supplies, and personnel to the eastern front. Nowhere do I derive from that the notion that “Russia likes” to destroy things – or peoples’ lives, etc. It’s a war, as in WAR. There are no referees in WARS – NONE.
Would you prefer “the people who live in Russia known as Russians like to destroyed civilians buildings”.
“if they were driven by impulses associated with individuals” The nations actions are direct by their leaders. Russia does attack Ukraine without Putin go ahead. And the US does not provide the support to Ukraine without Biden signing off.
Please tell how me how bombing a substation that supplies power to a neighbor where there are no trains is any but an attack on civilians population? And do you think that the trains transporting weapons are not going to be switched to diesel?
You are totally ignoring the shape Russia was in after winning ww2 and facing barbarians with nukes in Korea and Vietnam.
You don’t have to annex to control, like the US controls the policies of NATO nations
Yes, the US figured out, after WWII, how to exert force and maintain imperial power without owning the colonies the way that European countries had done. It’s analogous to owning the land and employing sharecroppers to farm it instead of owning slaves along with the land. The landowner (or center of the empire) gets the benefit of the labor without the bother and hazards of owning the laborers. The US empire calls it by the code phrase “spreading development and liberal democracy”. Translation: permanent indebtedness to international lenders and sacrifice of national sovereignty in the service of corporate capitalism.
That is a very fair assessment CD. I keep wondering how we will all be after WWIII.
We won’t be. If WWIII happens.
I did not denote any strong sense of optimism but I get your point.
It was annexed Hitler style at Maidan… What you sow you reep!
Except Hitler style involves troops on the ground and no later democratic elections (where the leaders are at all likely to lose power) You know like what Putin does.
What about republican elections?
What is republican elections – elections in Republics?
The nazi speaking of nazis.
Sorry, I dont speak trash.
That’s the trouble with Kremlin. They are are too damn nice and continue to nurture hope of peaceful negotiations. Same with Beijing.
What they need to understand is these barbarians only understand and respect the language of brute force. They should have at least take a look at how Persians deal with Anglo-American aggression. They should have not only destroyed everything sent into Ukraine, they should have shot down anything flying into Europe or Asia from the US. Both RF and PRC have the capability and imperial rats need a healthy slap to get them back down to reality (and negotiating table)
Totally agree. The only reasons I can come up with that they haven’t, are that they’re depleting NATO of its weapons, and also they want to see what new weapons NATO has so they can capture or learn how to counter them.
Which is why NATO is providing Ukraine with almost exclusively old weapons that they are no longer dependent upon or which are already ‘compromised’.
Yeah that’s one of my theories as well. They are draining so-called “west” of resources. The other is theory is much more sickening. They are working together and this is simply Murder INC to push sale of weapons for Anglo-American empire, Kremlin and Beijing.
The theory that Kremlin needs to see newer weapons in action doesn’t fly. We live in the information age. Any good hacker can get specs and blue prints to most advanced weapons without leaving their home. In most cases, you don’t even need to breach any network to get access to classified data. It all open to public on so-called ‘dark net’. Kremlin and Beijing already know everything about Anglo-American MIC. Besides, Pentagon thugs aren’t that stupid to send top of the line stuff to Ukraine.
Dang straight! Putin blamed for downing one plane he never did! and all truth silenced. Start shooting down the planes full of weapons and US taxpayer cash! US out of Ukraine.. money-laundering Biden grifters out of Ukraine. EU countries retake your sovereignty and pillory your bought out leaders! I’m done.. 🙂
Nothing new here. The Kremlin has been saying this since February. And according to them and some commenters here, Russia has been destroying most of it including all HIMARS.
It would be much easier for Russia and everyone else if Russia just pulls its troops out.
It would be easier, but Russia can not pull out. Putin would be kick out of power if that happen. Will Putin be willing to lose another 100,000 Russians to stay in power? Yep. How about million Russians? Still same answer.
It isn’t Putin. Much like the US for that matter it matters very little to foreign policy who’s head of the state. In an autocracy the head of state can permit him or herself a (much) longer view of the interests of state. In a democracy this is much more perverted by the election cycle, but that’s about it. Both forms of government serve the interests of their elites. Non-alignment means exit, vertically if possible, horizontally if necessary.
It is of course useful in propaganda to have an Emmanuel Goldstein or a hundredthousand-something-something-th incarnation of Herr Hitler, a boogey man, preferably with an arrogant smirk to get mad at and throw things at in the daily two minute hate sessions.
Psychobabble.
Everyone knows Putin intimately, lol.
“It would be much easier for Russia and everyone else if Russia just pulls its troops out.”
It would be easier for the Anglo-American empire yes.
For Russia, it will not be easier. For Russia it will mean the road to final collapse and subjugation by the Anglo-American empire.
This really sounds like a recipe for disaster. Inhale…………………….
With no wish to be overly dramatic, it occurs to me that this situation could easily escalate…
If nuclear war breaks out, I will smoke what is left of my weed and splurge and buy a good bottle of Russian vodka. That should set me right up for the ultimate evaporation.
I still perceive this as a possible point of conflict…
I have no desire to see Russia and the US in a face-off…
The sooner the better.
Okay, back to reality. This situation seems to be going from bad to worse. My largest concern is that any increase or escalation could potentially put us in direct conflict with Russia and everyone knows what that would mean. Where are the peacemakers?…. We are going to be needing them and fast… I have no desire to experience nuclear war.
IMO articles like this are total BS.
Ask yourself…
Why have the thugs waited until now to target ‘railway lines, bridges, and tunnels’? It seems that those targets would have been attacked long ago.
Answer:
Because the people you call “thugs” might not be “thugs” at all.
You know who would destroy bridges, railways and bridges from the very beginning?
NATO thugs. American thugs.
That’s who.
The thugs I refer to are those shooting missiles all over Ukraine, killing many innocent civilians and destroying their power grid.
Folks, I disagree with anyone providing military advice to Putin. Putin is a thug. Russia’s attack was disgusting and incompetent, period. The only question I have: “Is US policy helping us get to the end of this war?” I believe the answer is a clear no. The US should be pushing for peace, but Congress ONLY focussed on arms deals. Absurd!
> Russia’s attack was disgusting and incompetent, period.
Name me a single military attack in history that was neither “disgusting” nor “incompetent”?
I still have huge concerns about where this might lead…
Well, it is a lovely Sunday morning, yet potential conflict looms on the horizon.
I’m going to start my day on a positive note… I’m going to smoke a joint for World Peace and if I cannot make that happen I will try for Whirled Peas…
If the US could just stop arming everyone, we might be able to accomplish something else…
Well it is 2023 and I am going to start this year off with some hope and optimism that this year will be better than the last, for all of us and indeed the World. NO MORE WAR and let us all find a way we can live together in peace…. Having said that, this situation between the US and Russia concerns me a lot…