Kyiv Planning for Total Evacuation if It Loses Electricity

NY Times ^ | November 5, 2022 | Marc Santora and Ben Hubbard

[McGruff]

As they struggle to maintain an electricity grid heavily damaged by Russian missiles, officials in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, say they have begun planning for a once unthinkable possibility: a complete blackout that would require the evacuation of the city’s approximately three million remaining residents.

The situation is already so dire, with 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, that municipal workers are setting up 1,000 heating shelters that can double as bunkers while engineers try to fix bombed-out power stations without the needed equipment.

To try to keep the grid from failing altogether, Ukraine’s national energy utility said on Saturday that it would continue to impose rolling blackouts in seven regions.

[House Atreides]

Evacuation TO WHERE? (I’m not a NYT subscriber so can’t see the whole article).

[NWFree]

President Retard is sending taxpayer funded electric vehicles so they can escape

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Is this true??

Just earlier this week a Zeeper claimed it was restored in hours.

[George from New England]

What you can’t see is probably all NYT fabrication anyway.

[ought-six]

“Evacuation TO WHERE?”

Likely a dispersal evacuation.

[JonPreston]

Russia could have done this on Day 1.

[ought-six]

Uh-oh, is JonPreston finding fault with the Russian strategy?

[montag813]

Why did it take Russia 7 months to figure out to do this?

[rellic]

Probably because they thought they could take the country intact. You don’t fight wars to lose money unless you are a Democrat.

[Tell It Right]

Newsome wishes he could blame his power blackouts on Russia. LOL

[oldvirginian]

“Just earlier this week a Zeeper claimed it was restored in hours.”

Yeah, I was just thinking about that myself.

Oh who to believe. /S

[alternatives?]

How do people work and make money?

[cgbg]

The tourists have left Martha’s Vineyard.

Since the Kiev residents walk on water they should have no problem getting there.

;-)

[JonPreston]

rat

[ought-six]

I’m actually shocked you have criticized Russia’s strategy.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Why would Kiev lose electricity? Some Freepers have been telling us that the whole Russian army is running away and that Zelinsky is victorious. Clearly someone isn't telling the truth.

[JonPreston]

[ought-six]

Too funny!

[piroque]

thumbs- up on that