Posted on 11/23/2022 10:02:55 AM PST by elpadre
Earlier today the Russian military shut down the Ukrainian electricity network.
Previous attacks had limited the distribution capacity to some 50% of demand. Controlled blackouts over several hours per day allowed to give some electricity for a few hours to most parts of the country. The attack today created a much larger problem. Not only were distribution networks attacked but also so the elements that connect Ukraine's electricity production facilities to the distribution network. All four nuclear power stations of Ukraine with their 15 reactors are now in shutdown mode.
Kiev along with most other cities of Ukraine no longer has electricity.
Moldavia is likewise effected as it received some 20% of its electricity from Ukraine. When the Ukrainian network shut down the only local thermal power plant shut down too. It is likely that it can be switched on again but that can be a complicate process.
Limited electricity imports from the European system into Ukraine may still be possible but that electricity would only be available in Ukraine's western cities.
Before today's attack the Washington Post reported of the difficulties in repairing the network. As we ad explained before the Russian attacks are hitting the transformers that connect the national 330 kilovolt backbone network. These are hard to replace:
Cont. reading: Ukraine - Lights Out, No Water And Soon No Heat
(Excerpt) Read more at moonofalabama.org ...
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The Russians must have used capapults our trebuchets, because CNN said they were out of missiles
It’s even worse then we’ve been told...
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A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost.
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan
The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star
The Professor and Mary Ann,*
Here on Gilligan’s Isle.
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/gilligansislandlyrics.html
How is this possible? Ukraine is winning the war!! /S
And it took a war to do that to Ukraine. California and other states are doing that through the democrat party.
If they got coal, they got heat.
They are to lazy to dig for it.
Really an excellent and thorough article. Every delusional Ukraine supporter should read the whole thing; but of course none of them will. That’s how they stay delusional.
Truly tragic how this will end for Ukraine. “Former President Trump said he hopes he is ‘wrong’ about the possibility of World War III because the U.S. is being run by ‘stupid people’ at a rally in Wilmington, N.C. on Friday.
‘I was right about Ukraine. I was right about what, Taiwan and I’m hoping I’m not going to be right about World War Three, because we have stupid people dealing,’ the former president said, as he predicted the U.S. would lose a conflict to Russia.
‘You could end up in World War III and this will be a war like we’ve never had before - won’t even be close, because we’re being run by stupid people.’
“CNN said they were out of missiles.”
Yes. The Wall Street Journal just told me this morning the Russians were running out of ammunition and weaponry. They must be using slingshots and bows and arrows. Or maybe it’s Baba Yaga who was called into service.
Oh well, I guess they can get in line behind the United States and ask South Korea to replenish their weaponry.
And now we know Russia really is a terrorist regime.
If Russia is a terrorist state, then the US is the king of terrorist states with NATO running a close in second place.
Let me know when Russia reaches the levels of the US/NATO....
78 days straight of bombing Serbia.
‘Shock and Awe’ of Iraq 1 & 2.
Libya
Syria
Afghanistan
Vietnam
I could go on.
Minsk II is looking better and better every day. Unfortunately for the former state of Ukraine, that bridge has literally been burned.
“The Chinese Embassy has published a list of states that were bombed by the United States after World War II:
- Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
- Guatemala 1954
- Indonesia (1958)
- Cuba (1959-1961)
- Guatemala (1960)
- Congo (1964)
- Laos (1964-1973)
- Vietnam (1961-1973)
- Cambodia (1969-1970)
- Guatemala (1967-1969)
- Grenada (1983)
- Lebanon (1983, 1984) (hitting targets in Lebanese and Syrian territory)
- Libya (1986)
- El Salvador (1980)
- Nicaragua (1980)
- Iran (1987)
- Panama (1989)
- Iraq (1991) (Gulf War)
- Kuwait (1991)
- Somalia (1993)
- Bosnia (1994, 1995)
- Sudan (1998)
- Afghanistan (1998)
- Yugoslavia (1999)
- Yemen (2002)
- Iraq (1991-2003) (U.S. and British troops together)
- Iraq (2003-2015)
- Afghanistan (2001-2015)
- Pakistan (2007-2015)
- Somalia (2007-2008, 2011)
- Yemen (2009, 2011)
- Libya (2011, 2015)
- Syria (2014-2015)
There are more than 20 states on the list. China urged to “never forget who the real threats to peace are.”
This list should be broadcast on every possible channel 24 hours a day, uninterrupted.”
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Oh but don’t forget Ukraine is winning, our good friends in the media keep telling us that to make it easier to cover up Joey’s blackmail payments.
Throw this new source in the trash. Here’s a tweet from an acquaintance of mine who is in Kiev right now. Lights are on.
https://twitter.com/rangerholton/status/1595490173944487938?s=20&t=S1sMvvbMGo6IzNTBmEKxSg
Minsk II was never going to be enacted. Just a ploy on Ukraine’s part to get time to build up forces (which is exactly what they did with the time with our help on our dime.)
Kiev Joined Minsk Peace Process Only to Build Up Army With NATO’s Help, Poroshenko Tells Pranksters
17:59 GMT 17.11.2022 (Updated: 18:24 GMT 17.11.2022)
The former Ukrainian president is directly responsible for the over eight-year-old conflict in Donbass, backtracking on his election pledge to stem growing violence in the country’s east in the spring of 2014, and instead ramping up the war.
The Minsk Peace Accords were just a ploy for time, designed to give Ukraine’s Army a breather and allow it to be built up with NATO assistance following a series of defeats against the Donbass militias, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has revealed.
“I needed these Minsk Accords to get at least four years to form the Ukrainian Armed Forces, build up the Ukrainian economy and train the Ukrainian military together with NATO to create the best armed forces in Eastern Europe, created according to NATO standards,” Poroshenko told infamous Russian pranksters Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov.
Poroshenko told the pranksters, who posed as former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, that Kiev doesn’t have the resources to win the present conflict against Russia, and suggested that the key to victory lies in Washington, not Kiev.
“[Vladimir] Putin feels like a macho right now, and he still has significant resources to achieve victory…Our successes on the battlefield are not enough; this is enough to save Ukraine, but this is not enough to weaken Putin,” Poroshenko said, urging the US to ramp up the weapons aid and think up new ways to sanction Moscow.
Russia has “10 times more artillery…30 times more ammunition,” and “significant superiority” in the air, according to the former president. “We need to do everything in our power to supply Ukraine with air defense systems, F-16 and A-10 aircraft, in order to at least balance the offensive potential of Russia, now we have nothing to protect our troops from air strikes,” he said.
The military gap has only grown since then. By a lot. And now we find the Russians in an uncompromising mood.
Using old washing machine parts, drunk, they appear prepared to stamp out all resistance, if necessary.
Just order new transformers. If you put in an order now, you may get replacements by spring or early summer.
>> Every delusional Ukraine supporter
Is there any other kind?
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