Posted on 11/05/2022 5:28:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its ninth month, Ukrainians in Kyiv have been left without water in their homes. Many have been forced to stand in a line that stretches city blocks for hours each day to pump water from a city well.
After the initial Russian strikes, the message pushed to Ukrainians was that Ukraine was not seriously affected by the drone and missile strikes and that what infrastructure was damaged would be repaired and back online in a matter of weeks. That is clearly no longer the situation.
While Russian forces initially avoided most of Ukraine’s infrastructure, there has been a clear shift in Russian strategy in the past few weeks as the country has pelted Ukraine with missile strikes and Iranian drones. In the recent attacks, the targets have been predominantly Ukraine’s struggling infrastructure.
With a cold, bitter winter looming the loss of critical infrastructures like clean, running water and electricity push Ukrainians in the hardest hit cities and regions closer to the brink. Food shortages and a lack of heat and light going into the winter months could be disastrous for a population that has already been dealing with a war for the better part of a year.
As illegal immigrants continue to pour into Europe and the UK from North Africa and Albania, resources for potential Ukrainian refugees will be limited at best. While Ukrainians struggle to hold on through the winter, Europe should prepare for a mass migration of displaced immigrants without homes and nowhere else to go.
Guess Russia didn’t like the obama installed government too much.
How’s our infrastructure doing?
Col MacGregor has an excellent recent interview. The latest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePModNEzUU
Bozo Biden’s gonna pay for it.
Never understood that strategy. Trying to win hearts and minds?
Initially they probably thought they would win in 3 days…
Then they got their shirts handed to them. Not sure anyone else has had so much success against the Russians in recent history.
The Afghans didn’t get rid of them until Russia got tired of staying.
Bkmk
water has already been restored
this is merely more fear-mongering Russian propaganda
“..the message pushed to Ukrainians was that Ukraine was not seriously affected by the drone and missile strikes and that what infrastructure was damaged would be repaired and back online in a matter of weeks. That is clearly no longer the situation.”
Some local propagandists have been assuring us that any damages to infrastructure was repaired and the lights on and water running within hours....oh who to believe.
They probably just tried to do the minimum amount of damage necessary to get the Ukrainians to surrender. I don't think the Russians really wanted to pulverize the country. If they did, they would have done it right from the start. Their limited initial warfare would probably have been enough to get their point across, but good old Joe Biden and his buddies had to try to protect their assets by dragging this thing out.
So says one of the worst Propagandists on FreeRepublic.
Pot meet Kettle.
Did MacGregor just get a Youtube channel?
This mail order bride shithole country can buzz off.
I think that too. They held back such strikes until Ukraine hit that bridge. I guess after that Russia decided to show what they could do if pressed.
And the fact that they held to that approach until now tells me that all the propaganda we see about Putin about to be overthrown is a load of BS. If that were a real possibility then he'd unleash everything he had to save his own skin.
That last sentence is an astute observation.
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