ABC News Australia: Kyiv residents holding out as repair teams work to restore power and water after heavy Russian strikes
Residents of Ukraine's bombed capital clutched empty bottles in search of water and crowded into cafes for power and warmth, switching defiantly into survival mode after new Russian missile strikes a day earlier plunged the city and much of the country into the dark.
In scenes hard to believe in a city of 3 million, some Kyiv residents resorted to collecting rainwater from drainpipes, as repair teams laboured to reconnect supplies.
Friends and family members exchanged messages to find out who had electricity and water back. The previous day's aerial onslaught on Ukraine's power grid left many with neither.
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WNU Editor: This is a losing battle. Once the main parts of the grid have been repaired, Russia follows with more strikes. It is also taking the power companies longer to repair the damage. An indication that they are near the limit on keeping the grid functional.
So why target the grid?
The media is focused on the impact that these strikes are having on the civilian population. But from the Russian position the focus is to knock out the electric grid that feeds the train system.
Much of Ukraine's railway network runs on electricity.
The trains are also vital for the Ukraine military since this is how they move troops and equipment as quickly as they do. Knocking out this transport grid will definitely limit Ukraine's ability to move its forces.
Ukraine Tries To Restore Power And Water After Heavy Russian Military Strikes
Freezing Ukraine gradually restores power after Russian strikes on grid -- Reuters
Ukraine’s battle to restore power slowed by sub-zero weather conditions -- CNN
Much of Ukraine still without power, heat and water after missile attacks -- The Guardian
Fears for all Ukraine’s nuclear plants after emergency shutdowns -- The Guardian
Striking satellite image reveals extent of Ukraine's power shortage after Russian missile strikes -- SKY News
Bombed, not beaten: Ukraine’s capital flips to survival mode -- AP
Inside Russia's attempt to destroy Ukraine "with darkness and cold" -- CBS
28 comments:
It is why we need a nuclear confrontation and war.
America should give ATACM missile to Ukraine so they Can knock out Russia's electrical grid. Tit for tat I say.
Exactly
Not
Not?
I can hit you, but you cannot hit me back?
2:43 what kind of sissy are you? The Russian kind?
"Over five million Russians have permanently left Russia since Vladimir Putin took power in 1999. The exodus accelerated when he made his rule legally permanent in 2020. In 2022 Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, the first of several conquests he proclaimed necessary for Russian survival. This is not working out well because increased internal repression and external violence have crippled the economy (fewer jobs) while forcing men into the army to fight in Ukraine have led to still more Russians leaving Russia. The departures are substantial and continually reduce the population and percentage of the population that is Russian."
Sound taps.
Stick a fork in it.
Russia is done!
Country being jacked up by unrepentant communists
This is war. Electric Grids are legitimate targets.
The Russian economy is doing quite well. People are leaving? Yes 5 mil is not bad for over 20 years. How many have come back or immigrated in..unknown.
Yes Russians invaded. Given all the extenuating circumstances it was a hard choice but a needed one.
The Ukrainian gov is basically a puppet of the west. Zelinski and his predecessor betrayed thier own people. Wonder how much they got payed off. They knew that the Russians would only be pushed so far
But they did not care. Once this hellish night mare is over they will flee to their out of country estates. and blame the people for the loss while the everyday ukie is forced to clean up thier mess.
This is what these creeps do.. all over the world
And dont worry.. the hate the west stired up here will last for generations
"How many have come back or immigrated in..unknown"
I recognize you. That smell!
The same people counting emigration are also counting immigration. Are such things so dissimilar that a person could not do both.
"Then, late Sunday night, the lights went out. Like many parts of Serbia, Valjevo gets its electricity from the Obrenovac power and redistribution station outside Belgrade. NATO's attack on Obrenovac – as well as on power facilities in Drmno, Kostoloc, Bajina Basta and Novi Sad – short-circuited power grids and plunged much of the republic into darkness. Sporadic power outages continued throughout today in Belgrade and the rest of Serbia – the dominant partner in the Yugoslav federation. Hospitals, most of which have standby generators, were assigned top priority for restoration of power.
"They want to make life impossible," complained Leposava Milicevic, the Serbian health minister. "Directly by killing, indirectly by ruining the water, the power, everything."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/albania050499.htm
These tactics never work and will only garner worldwide support for Ukraine even more… everything is on social media and the message is Russia can’t defeat Ukraine on the battlefield so they have to attack civilians like cowards… the west is rushing in generators and thousands of repairmen… russia will soon run out of armaments to hit Ukraine… worst tactic ever Putin is dumber than I could have ever imagined..
oh yes. no power = no water, no heat, no light., no ability to store perishable food and more.
miserable existence. This is why the ruskies avoided this tactic ,(bad move on thier part) in the first place. Now thier brother Slavs will truly suffer. Blame zelinski and his crew.
Bet they have plenty of power in the bunker and at the American embassy with its gay flag flying. Those guys never suffer
Also, yes, Serbia was another US disaster
IDK
worked in serbia, iraq, syria, Afghanistan etc..just about the only thing that did work... bombing the power grid , that is
I do not think the russians care about what the western press says at this point.
It didn’t work I any of those countries lol learn history… it wasn’t even a tactic in those countries…it’s a sign of desperation and only bringing the world together to stop the evil Nazi Russian empire…Putin is a sick man and can’t fight a war without f his life depended on it which it does..
Dont know where you have been. Oh it does work and works very well. Just ask all the dead after a B 52 strike.
doing it on a national scale slows or destroys vital industrial and transportation networks. Just ask the japs and krauts. in all those othere counties mentioned it also worked The ghost of Curtis LeMay lives on
Wrong… Ukraine is repairing faster than remiss is can destroy… thousands of generators and repairman are flooding into Ukraine to repair its grid… Russia is only reinforcing the fact that Putin is using Hitler tactics( torture,killing civilians, genocide) and making nato stronger than ever… Putin kills civilians while the Russia army retreats and retreats… if these are good tactics than I don’t know what bad is…
10:52
You sure about that?
Counterpoint: Whenever Hiroshima comes up, wags will proffer that the nukes and the bombing before it dud not cause Japan to surrender. They will assert that it was the USSR declaring war that was the tipping point for Japan's surrender.
So where does that leave your Curtis LeMay argument?
98% of the world wasn’t supporting Japan like they are Ukraine? Are you really this dumb?
Friendly reminder that approx only 12.5% (1 billion) of the worlds population reside in countries that support sanctions against Russia.
Iraq was conquered the old fashioned way with boots on the ground. The electricity was shut off using carbon filament to shut down air defense. The physical infrastructure to provide electricity was not destroyed and power was restored except to destroyed air defense.
BIG difference between the US way and the USSR/Russian/Neanderthal way.
Argument is still valid.
You are comparing two unlike items
Winning s war
and
aerial bombardment as a war tactic
Two totally separate concepts
Bombing will not end the war by itself. But it does help win the war by attrition of industrial, economic and logistic
processes in the targeted country. So back to main question.
Does bombing work? Yes it does
But Bombing does not equal victory, but it does help
What a joke.A little self righteous are we not?
look at the pictures of faluljah, Rakka and Ramadi.
Guess you were not in tora bora or on the reciving end in Hanoi.either.
Also ask the folks in Dresden about Us and Brit civilized behavior
I am sure the japs felt the same way when you all fire bombed Tokyo
But i am not against that history . It needed to be done. This is war...in all its horror and misery. and it seems the russians are now endeavoring to keep pace
So spare me your pathetic, smug, self righteous federation ramblings ,🤣
In WWII the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese were our enemies.
In WWII the Russians and the Chinese were our allies.
In post-WWII the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese our allies.
In post-WWII, the Chinese, and the Russians are our enemies.
been to ramadi. go there and on the 1st day Al Qaeda detonated a car bomb in a souk (that is a open air shopping center for you mooks from St Petersburg).
civilian casualties were taken to the US base. Apparently, the US did not have control of all of ramadi. Al Qaeda had taken control over the local hospital and fortified the building around it. they treated their wounded there but would not let civilians be treated there.
Fallujah was cordoned off. That means surrounded for you mooks in Moscow. Civilians were allowed to pass through cordon. After the civilians left the US dug out the brave men who had been hiding under women's skirts.
Rakka? Do you mean Al Raqqa? Per Wiki Rakka is an okay spelling for English readers, but it is archaic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa
So someone (maybe Russian) wants to bring up 'Rakka' after General Armageddon used chlorine bombs and pounded Aleppo.
your statement is not logical. Nor your statistical assumption of support.
Go back and tie the concepts of public support with Japenese faliure to achieve war aims Then re comment..
hint ..define 98% support.. You have to be using a nation state metric not a population metric.
you are not counting the indians or Chinese in this are you?
Nice. did you take pictures before and after to show how the places you mentioned were flattened by US forces?
Yes in fallujah part 2 the city was surrounded and civilians lett out. not in falujah 1
oh sounds familiar does it not.
The US warned those people to stand down. Did they listen...No so they got slammed.
Russians warned the Ukies several times. Tried to work out peace deals like the Minsk agreements.
Did the ukies listen.? No so they are getting slammed.
and the difference is?
Exactly
All everybody needs is for Russia to get what they deserve.
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