Russia launched a major missile and suicide drone offensive on Thursday, bombarding Ukraine’s power grid and underground natural gas storage sites.
Bloomberg reports Russia air-launched six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles that hit critical infrastructure near Kyiv and a region around western Ukraine’s biggest city, Lviv. Ukraine’s air defense system was not able to intercept the hypersonic missiles. However, 18 out of 42 more traditional and slower Russian missiles were downed, and only one of 40 drones.
In a Facebook post, Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote that power plants near Kyiv, the Kharkiv region in the east, Zaporizhzhia in the south, and Lviv in the west were damaged. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram that a power plant was damaged in Odesa.
A person familiar with one of the strikes told Bloomberg that six missiles hit the Trypilska plant south of Kyiv, the largest power plant in the region.
Footage of the destroyed Trypilska plant was posted on X.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in the Kyiv region was destroyed!
Trypilska Thermal Power Plant with an installed capacity of 1800 MW was the largest energy generating facility in the Kyiv region. https://t.co/aJa5HRvyHl pic.twitter.com/Zr8TVvgrZc
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) April 11, 2024
The Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in the Kiev region was totally destroyed last night. pic.twitter.com/bpcTQK1s2A
— ayden (@squatsons) April 11, 2024
Russia also targeted two of Ukraine’s underground NatGas sites during the attack, according to a post on Telegram by Naftogaz Ukrainy, the largest national oil and gas company of Ukraine.
The operator of the underground storage site, Ukrtransgaz JSC, wrote on its website that the missile attack damaged the site’s aboveground infrastructure.
While energy traders are bracing for potential strikes on Israel by Iran or its proxies, which could ignite a regional war across the Middle East, Russia’s intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are likely the reason European NatGas futures are surging on Thursday, up nearly 7%—the highest in two weeks.
Meanwhile, some of the world’s top traders and big banks on Wall Street are eying a possible return of $100 Brent crude.
“The current geopolitical environment continues to provide support to oil prices,” said Warren Patterson, the head of commodities strategy for ING Groep NV in Singapore.
A combination of geopolitical tensions and OPEC+ supply cuts pushes crude prices higher, complicating the Federal Reserve’s pivot as inflation reaccelerates. Higher energy prices could doom President Biden’s election odds come November.
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“Ukraine’s air defense system was not able to intercept the hypersonic missiles.”
You mean US air defense systems don’t work against Russian hypersonic missiles. Just keep that in mind as US/NATO prepares to go to war directly with Russia.
But…. I thought Russia ran out of missiles 6 mos. ago???
They actually did. These are Russian disinformation projectiles.
Boom boom. Out go the lights.
Classic Soviet doctrine. In the 1986 awesome Tom Clancy novel “Red Storm Rising” a US Navy carrier battle group expends most of its anti-missile ordnance against 100 decoy missiles. The Tomcats watch helplessly as a second wave of actual missiles fly past them toward their ships.
The stupid bleat about how we shot down all their drones which had already delivered all the targeting data and defense locations. These drones are the ones we joke about as being powered by a lawn mower engine and cost $500. Taking out these super cheap drones cost the US taxpayer millions and then the Patriots basically failed. This is absolutely pathetic.
WHILE THIS is going on we learn the USG has surrendered a mountain in Arizona to the Drug Cartels. Just wait. Those 40 year old F-16s are going to change everything, right? YOU are going to war right here, any day, while your money and military are going to get ass frigged by a real military like we used to have.
Not when you can cheat with impunity in the swing states via “mail-in ballots” and get away with it!
Wake Auntie when Odessa is returned to the Motherland and Z is no more.
Rip Van Auntie
Meanwhile, Auntie … enjoy a few laughs with Tim Conway’s Elephant Story skit on the Carol Burnett show in its final season.
Background … they’re playing ‘Password’ … and Conway walks everyone off into the deep end of his craziness …
When Odessa is returned Piano Man will be living in King Charles former estate he bought with money stolen from us, giving “serious” interviews to fuques like Anderson Cooper.
Odessa has vast underground tunnel networks dating back centuries, certainly not an easy task
What,they missed Burisma?……
What the problem here?! Putin is simply helping Ukraine meet their carbon emission reduction goals for power generation. He’s literally fighting climate change and the western governments are still mad.
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Ukraine probably wishes it hadn’t gotten involved with the NATO show, no matter how good the money was. I take that back, the people of Ukraine wish the fat cat corruptoshits in charge had been able to decline the bribes dangled by the NATO show. That’s better.
List of people the US befriended or came to help….
South Vietnam – Đình Diệm
Libya – Muammar Gaddafi
Dominican Republic – Rafael Trujillo
Iraq – Saddam Hussein
Afghanistan – Hamid Karzai
Kind of makes you wonder what Zelinski was thinking…… maybe he thought this time will be different….
HahahahahHaahahahaha