‘Massive’ Airstrikes Cut Off Power and Water in Kyiv

Breitbart ^ | 10/31/2022 | JACK MONTGOMERY

[ChicagoConservative27]

Facing reverses on the frontline, Russian forces are intensifying strategic strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, with a renewed bombardment of Kyiv (Kiev) cutting off power and water in the capital.

Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing champion who serves as the capital city’s mayor, said an energy facility powering “about 350,000 apartments in Kyiv” had been rocked by five explosions in the early hours of Monday morning.

[Leep]

Send EVs.

[House Atreides]

“ Facing reverses on the frontline, Russian forces are intensifying strategic strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure…”
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At this point, I think those reverses are in the past… by several weeks. Of course with the ebb and flow of battle they could return.

[canuck_conservative]

and validate every reason they don’t want to be ruled by Moscow

thank you for that perceptive comment

with these attacks, it's like Russia is saying to the World, "butchery and destruction are what we're all about"

(no wonder Sweden and Finland dropped their neutrality and want to join NATO!)

[Roadrunner383]

A lot easier to do without power than go without water for any period of time.

[Wuli]

The Ukrainian soldiers will defeat Putin’s conscript army with or without Ukraine infrastructure. Unlike the dumb Russians they will improvise as needed to the nth degree. Before its over they will take Putin’s war to Russia and force Putin to bomb his own cities to try to save his personal hide.

[Kazan]

But, Timber, Speedy, Marcus Maximus, UMCRevMom, Fresh Prince, etc. all keep telling us Ukraine is winning. How is this possible?

[canuck_conservative]

this war still has a long way to go, obviously

and the sanctions will stay in place the whole time ... this could go on for years

[libh8er]

Ukrainian drones damage Russian warships. Russia retaliates by launching cruise missiles on civilians. Pudiots erupt with joy because this is proof Russia isn’t defeated yet. Almost too funny.

[Fury]

Time to start doing the same to Russian pipelines and oil shipments. Squeeze them harder, and China too if they support Russia.

Using the Powell Doctrine, all these questions should be answered in detail in the affirmative:

1. Is a vital national security interest threatened?
2. Do we have a clear attainable objective?
3. Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed?
4. Have all other nonviolent policy means been fully exhausted?
5. Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?
6. Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
7. Is the action supported by the American people?

[mac_truck]

I want a pony.

[jdsteel]

“ Yea, the Russians are on the run...lol sarc.”

If they weren’t Putin wouldn’t be bombing the cities he wanted to invade, dude.

[cranked]

Wait, you did not have no problems whatsoever and were cheering when Ukraine hit the civilian Kerch bridge....

You hypocrite much or what?!

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Exactly. And you've also got these prominent Putin allies, both in the media and in the military, talking about flattening Ukraine, cleansing it of "Satanists", etc., Even just killing Ukrainians until they lose their "irrational" dislike of Russia. And Putin has made zero effort to disavow or distance himself from any of those comments. In fact, he actually just promoted Kadyrov, one of the most bloodthirsty of the bunch.

If Ukraine made peace on the terms demanded by Moscow, the first likely result in the occupied oblasts would be political persecution/mass deportation of anyone deemed sympathetic to Kyiv, and replacement by ethnic Russians shipped in from elsewhere. That's essentially surrendering millions of Ukrainian citizens to the gulags, or simply being shot.

The second likely result would be greatly increased vulnerability to the remaining Ukrainian rump state. That pretty much guarantees a subsequent Russian invasion a few years down the road to complete the job. And that would likely mean more mass executions, deportations, and persecution of anyone, civilians or military, deemed to have resisted Russia.

The reality is that it is impossible to negotiate around any of those consequences because there is no way to enforce any agreement against Russia. No other country is going to invade those oblasts to stop Russian persecution, and nobody is going to send troops into the rump Ukrainian state that lacks the space to absorb an initial invasion.

Russia, with it's own actions and rhetoric, has turned this into literally a life or death struggle for Ukrainians. So those hoping for Ukrainian capitulation are going to be disappointed because they simply can't

Stupid strategy on Russia's part to remove peace as a viable option for the other side.

[libh8er]

First, it’s a bridge to occupied Ukraine built by the invaders, so it shouldn’t even exist. Secondly it was being used for military purposes to aid the Russian military against Ukraine at a time of war. That made it a legitimate military target. Thirdly, Ukraine went out of their way to minimize civilian casualties by choosing a time when civilian traffic was bound to be minimum. There is no moral equivalence whatsoever because Russia targeting and killing civilians and Ukraine damaging that bridge.

[cranked]

[sarge83]

It’s the Russians and Ukrainians war and business. We need to stay out of this, but the warmongers will not hear of it.

This was totally expected and it will get worse, but warmongers are going to have their war...

[Salman]

Strategic bombing?

I guess it's a war, right?

[servantboy777]

>>If they weren’t Putin wouldn’t be bombing the cities he wanted to invade, dude.<<

War has many facets. Some battles you win, some you do not. Fact is, Russia isn’t on the ropes as our crooked MSM reports.

All a deception to continue to pump billions of hard earned American tax $$$’s into this conflict that is apparent an American/NATO proxy war against Russia.

Plain and simple. This is not an American problem. It is a European problem and we should get the hell out.

20+ year war in Afghanistan and three TRILLION bucks wasn’t enough for the war mongers?

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Absolutely correct. Civilians in Crimea are not going to freeze, starve, or go without water because of the damage to that bridge, yet that is exactly what Putin is purposefully trying to do to Ukrainian civilians.<p

Completely different.

[bruoz]

"The US Armed Forces and the Red Army, although great rivals, only once met in battle. Even though during the Cold War a number of conflicts were considered to be proxy wars between the two superpowers, it was during the Russian Civil War that the Soviets and Americans fought each other directly."

P.S. We lost.