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Summary of the daily livestream with Aleksey Arestovych, Day 279, November 29th
“Russia is probably training and/or preparing for another massive strike on Ukrainian critical infrastructure. Russian airplanes were in the air for 4h, leading to the air-raid alert in Ukraine, but the attack didn’t happen yet.
Simultaneously, Russian IL-22 planes were in the air, probably performing surveillance and trying to sot Ukrainian anti-air-defences that massively decrease the current efficiency of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine – 70 out of 90 Russian missiles are intercepted by Ukrainian air-defence.”...
...”The US and Germany aiding the restoration of the Ukrainian electrical grid
The US is giving Ukraine $53M and another $56M is coming from Germany to supply Ukraine with transformers and other key parts for the repair of the Ukrainian electrical grid.
While Russia can still organise another 10 massive attacks on Ukrainian electrical infrastructure, the Ukrainian electrical grid was constructed to withstand nuclear war and will endure the Russian attacks.
...the Ukrainian electrical grid was constructed to withstand nuclear war and will endure the Russian attacks.I believe that is mostly true.
I would expect the actual generators would be in hardened facilities. They would be spaced out and enclosed in a concrete structure that would then take multiple missiles to destroy one generator.
I have not read or seen any articles indicating attacks on generators.
The weak links in the electric infrastructure are electric substations. One missile could damage multiple transformers. A cruise missile with a dummy warhead could be effective against an electric substation.
My hope is the repaired substations are being enclosed and spaced out in hardened facilities.
If that is done, then the only electric targets would be power lines.
Easy and quick to repair.