* More than 50 cruise missiles fired at Ukraine early on Monday, military said
* Weapons hit key infrastructure in major cities, including the capital Kyiv
* 80 per cent of Kyiv is without water and 350,000 homes are without power
* Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Cherkasy also suffering power cuts
Ukraine's capital has been left largely without water and suffering power cuts this morning after Russia unleashed another missile barrage on major cities.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said 80 per cent of his city has been left without water and 350,000 homes have no power after Russian cruise missiles hit key infrastructure sites - with witnesses reporting five explosions.
Kharkiv, in the north, Dnipro and Cherkasy, in central Ukraine, and the southern city of Zaporizhzhia were also hit - causing power cuts.
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WNU Editor:It has been a long day. Spent time talking to a distant cousin and two friends in Kyiv.
According to my relative water supplies are being quickly restored in Kyiv. But she told me the big fear that everyone now has is what will happen in winter. If the pumping stations are not able to pump water, it would mean pipes are going to freeze and bust. And while she has electricity, much of the city does not.
A friend of mine who is south of Kyiv believes that it is only a matter of time. A week or two. Before much of the country's electrical grid is completely knocked out. Especially if the intensity of the attacks continue, as was the case today.
Fortunately. Cell communications are still working. There are problems with the internet, but it is still working. But everyone I know is expecting this to be knocked out next.
Ukraine's Electricity Grid Near Collapse. 80% Of Residents In Kyiv Do Not Have Water
Heavy Russian barrage on Ukraine, no water for much of Kyiv -- AP
Ukraine war: Kyiv locals queue for water after Russian strikes -- BBC
Russian attacks leave many Ukrainians without power or water -- Reuters
Russian missiles bombard cities across Ukraine, hitting power and water infrastructure -- CNN
Russian Attacks Leave Ukrainian Cities Without Electricity, Water -- VOA
80 percent of Kyiv without water after Russian strikes, mayor says -- The Hill
80% of Kyiv residents without water after Russian barrage targets infrastructure -- Times of Israel
Russian missile strikes leave most of Kyiv without water -- Axios
Kyiv in the dark after 3rd week of Russian airstrikes -- NYPost
Russian assault on Ukraine’s power grid is the strategy of nihilism -- The Guardian
They're still not hitting "decision making centers" (aside from the one SBU office at the beginning) as of yet, which makes me think that any real offensive beyond the Donbas is still weeks away.
ReplyDeleteBasically genocide on Ukrainian people..no water or electricity for the winter… should focus on military targets as this will only guarantee more support for Ukraine.. remember the Battle of Britain when Germany hit civilian infrastructure and not military targets? Didn’t work out to good did it… Russia is following the same losing playbook with tactics that will only backfire🤦🏻♂️
ReplyDelete"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
ReplyDeleteIt has been argued that this war is over language and culture.
A major part of culture is religion. Many Ukrainians and Russians are Eastern Orthodox. Another part of culture is food. Was there an Ukrainian food police that we did not hear about? Perhaps a Soup NAZI. The ethnic Ukrainians and Russians probably celebrate the same holidays. So what are we left with? Probably language.
So we are destroying vast regions of the earth over what language is used in a court room of in teaching at school. People should always learn the lingua franca of a nation. If that is not their native tongue, they should be able to learn that also.
I think the language thing is more f a pretext for war and territorial ambition than the actual cause.
I have lived and went to grade school overseas. Lo and behold, while English was taught and was the language of instruction, there was a law, which was enforced that the country's native language must be be taught.
This whole language as an excuse for war is a red herring. Suit or whatever could have been brought to the UN. We know why it was not. The language and culture deal was a pretext for war not its cause.
Addendum: Where I live a local ethnic group taught the ethnic's group's language at a local church on Saturdays. That was their convenient meeting place. My own kids went there, but to no avail, because they were already too old. Being bilingual is to be encouraged. It helps greatly in making money with international business among other things.
Language and culture was the pretext for the three provincial secession movements back in 2014. The pretext for this current ongoing conflict had nothing to do with language and everything to do with this:
ReplyDeleteOSCE reported ceasefire violations:
Feb 14: 150
Feb 15: 150
Feb 16: 600 <- Start of the Donbass incursion
Feb 17: 850 <- Biden begins "predicting a russian invasion"
Feb 18: 1500 <- The car bombing campaign on Donetsk begins
Feb 19: no OSCE report
Feb 20: 3100
Feb 21: 1900
Feb 22: 1700
Feb 23: OSCE pulls out observers due to a "sharp deterioration of the security situation"
Feb 24: Russia intervenes directly
Most of the reported incidents are indirect fire events, though there were also company-sized offensive operations reported beginning on the 21st.
It isn't very user friendly but you can verify this data here on the OSCE's official website: https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/reports