The careful destruction of energy systems in Ukraine continues.
From today’s clobber list as provided by the Defense Ministry of Russia:
On 17 November, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a concentrated strike, using high-precision long-range air-, sea- and ground-based weapons, at the facilities of military control, defence industry, as well as related fuel and energy infrastructure of Ukraine.The goals of the strike have been reached.
All the missiles have accurately stricken the assigned facilities.
I have no idea if the last line is true but it does not matter much.
The targeting of 330 kilovolt transformers in various switching stations has cut some 50% of the distribution capability of Ukraine’s electricity network. These transformers weigh up to 200 tons. There are no replacements. You do not buy them at the next corner but will have to order them with years of lead time. As far as I can tell Russia is currently the only producer of transformers of that type.
Isn’t it a war crime to destroy the infrastructure that supplies civilians?
It depends. If the infrastructure is used exclusively for civilian purpose the destruction is illegal. But the electricity and transport infrastructure in Ukraine is used for civilian AND military purposes. In a recent Politico piece Ukrainian officials are even confirming that:
Ukraine tells allies it may not be able to recover from more Russian attacks on energy systems:
An unreliable energy sector could have deadly consequences, Ukrainian officials say. In recent conversations, they’ve added that it could halt food production and transport operations — critical services needed to support military operations.
The clobber list also includes this curious item:
The strike has resulted in the neutralisation of the production capacities for nuclear weaponry.
I wonder where and what that has been:
One depot of artillery armament, delivered by western countries and prepared for being sent to troops, has been destroyed.The redeployment of the reserve forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), and the delivery of foreign armament to operations areas have been frustrated.
The last sentence describes the real purpose of the attacks on the energy systems.
The lack of energy is degrading the railway network that brings weapons from the west to the eastern front. It makes redeployment of units from one front section to another very difficult and time consuming. It will give the Russian forces the advantage when they change the Schwerpunkt of their attacks from one corner of the frontline to another.
Another effect of the strikes on the electricity systems and the blackouts in the big cities that follow them is a renewed stream of refugees that will want reach western Europe. It will over time change the public opinion and the political priorities of those countries. If they fail to end the war they will have to carry the burden.
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Fake news. Russia is running out of missiles!! The only have four, maybe five, left.
https://esgcongress.com/en/cop27
COP27 will focus on how the world plans to pay for the cost of combating climate change, which is estimated to be $125 trillion by 2050.
The results of all discussion sessions will be sent to the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the President of the Russian Federation.
Weird I know….
I’m tapped out I hope the 20 something homos and social justice warriors enjoy paying for these fantasies.
I hear they’re out completely. Ukraine should launch a Moscow offensive immediately! Russia is two days from complete military collapse!
/s
But… doesn’t that prove the missile that came down in Poland couldn’t have been Russian?
Do we really care? After gaining our independence from Europe, we spent the last 100 years or so trying to be just like them. Now we’re looking at the possibility of a world without Europe. To a lot of the world that sounds like a pretty sweet deal!
I really grin every time at the American 1970s Cold War mentality still in place today:
Europe is going to get nuked, but the US will get away scot-free!
That might have been somewhat true at SS-20 times, but with today’s Khinzal, Poseidon, and Sarmat… not so much. I’m pretty sure the US will get hit harder than Europe, in a full nuclear exchange.
It’s more or less inevitable eventually. Eventually could be this afternoon!
It was aimed at a fertilizer plant. Missed by 25 feet are the reports. A strike would have been spectacularly explosive causing much death.
Coincidently, the miss resulted in identification of the missle type.
Either incompetence or sabotage with the guidance system as the fertilizer plant was huge, leaving many to assume sabotage.
And even though Russia has no debt and has thousands of tons of gold the Russians are bankrupt, Not like the US that has $30trillion no $50 no no $200trillion of debt and likely no gold, yet we are the leader of the world with our fake $s. Sorry boys and girls but this game is ending. This is in reality a currency war that is funded with printed money. That money is only worth what you can buy with it which will be nothing when Europe has nothing to sell and China decides not to accept the $ for their goods. The $ is going to die. FACT. We can no longer bomb any Nation that stops accepting the $ for payment. We are in fact a Banana Republic now. We did all we could do to isolate Russia when they decided to stop accepting the $ for their energy sales and we not only failed but we destroyed Europe in the process. We are a Nation of fools.
Oh and by the way, shove your digital currency up your ass you criminal banker pieces of shit!
It’s stupid could fly Stucky, you’d be a Jet.
Calls someone else stupid; misspells “If” as “It’s”.
4, maybe 5 years of missiles left?
Enough to finish conflict with the west.
U.S. is taking on China next.
Four or five hundred warehouses full maybe…
Almost stopped at In a recent Politico piece Ukrainian officials are even confirming that:
But continued on , clicked on the dead link and finished.
Is Ukraine another CIA fail or win ? It’s hard to tell with Deep Shekel’s demons of hire. They’re very good at playing both sides against the middle.
Nazis do their best work in the dark. This might have been a tactical mistake!
I thought you turned the lights ON to get rid of cockroaches.
If you search the term “Russian losses” you will find that they long ago lost the war in the Ukraine. Month after month they suffered debilitating losses, loss after loss after loss. They used up all of their missiles by May, have close to no troops left and can’t resupply or build anything new due to sanctions.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-unable-fight-another-war-after-catastrophic-military-losses-1701469
A catastrophe, itz.
LOL
Just read a story on Gateway pundit about a biracial girls eulogy at her father’s funeral. She calls him a facist racist Hitler .But she’ll still take his money to better the world. That my friends is why you wrap that shit tight .
…with lead lined tin foil.
she is an ungrateful wretch whose IQ is that of a snail’s.
she declared herself a ‘black supremacist’ in the process. her day of learning is yet to come.
Where was this question as Ukraine shelled Donetsk non-stop since 2014, nailed Russians to crosses, cut open pregnant women to show the dead baby to them or filled their belly with glass and sewed them back up?
The Rus came from the Donetsk region…so what can we deduce from this?
There are no “good guys” in war. Only amoral opportunists.
what the U.S. did to Iraq? destroy all of the infrastructures.
absolutely.
I hope Putin doesn’t emp us it’s awfully cold in Shitcago land.
Here’s a lot better source on the Ukraine war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77Rk4ofXew&t=989s
Another good source is Military Summary channel on You Tube.
Sigh…..,again,the bear wanted to join nato in the 90’s,if done,we would have not been with nato anymore but had a great friend with western europe combined.
We also at a time stated when wall fell that no nato bases would be on the bear’s border.
Kill zelinsky and those who put him in office and move forward.
As always,we then trade Jack and good steaks for the bear’s vodka and caviar and have a awesome party worldwide!
It’s probably better that he was not accepted into NATO.
When, exactly, is Europe supposed to freeze to death?
Cold is fake, Glock. Popsicles are just crisis actors.
Right after all of the unvaccinated die last winter.
You can thank NATO/the U.S. for all the suffering and death because of their actions. I look at the open border in southern AZ and wonder how many fentanyl deaths happened because of bad Biden policies, deaths from the war in Ukraine, and in the future from lack of energy and food crops from Ukraine. TPTB don’t give a shit about human life.
Neither do the Reset wackos.
LOL. They’re looking at evacuating the whole country? How does that work?
I thought Russia was losing.