Posted on 12/17/2022 12:33:14 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Basic services were being restored in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a city gripped by fog and girded for a holiday season marked by uncertainty.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a quarter of Kyiv remained without heating but that the metro system was back in service and all residents had been reconnected to water supply by early morning.
Only around one-third of the city remained without electricity, he said, but emergency outages would still be implemented to save power. "Because the deficit of electricity is significant," he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its heaviest barrages since the Kremlin's Feb. 24 invasion, forcing emergency blackouts nationwide.
Ukraine has managed to restore power to almost 6 million people in the last 24 hours, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address.
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Sounds like it’s time to hop over to Paris for another shopping spree.
Military Operation in Ukraine on December 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abf4Jq9oz8
Tne upcoming Russian winter offensive will be a make or break event.
“Tne upcoming Russian winter offensive will be a make or break event.”
If it happens. Decent chance that Ukraine launches its next offensive before the Russians do.
bkmk
But who is going to win the winter offensive?
Rybar? Rybar (of Telegram channel) is confirmed to be Mikhail Zvinchuk, "a career officer in the [Russian] armed forces."
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/11/25/byvshii-sotrudnik-press-sluzhby-minoborony-mikhail-zvinchuk-podtverdil-chto-iavliaetsia-avtorom-telegram-kanala-rybar-news
A 31-year-old former employee of the press service of the Ministry of Defense confirmed that he is the creator and administrator of the telegram channel Rybar. He acknowledged the authorship in an interview with RTVI.
“I am indeed the founder, as I call it, of the project “Rybar” <...> Indeed, I am a former employee of the press service of the Ministry of Defense, the Department of Information and Mass Communications. The experience I gained from working in the armed forces, I capitalized in order to engage in my own information activities,” he said.
Zvinchuk said that he is a career military officer. He also confirmed the previously published information that he studied at the Military University under the Ministry of Defense as an Arabic language interpreter. According to Zvinchuk, he served in Special Forces, worked as an interpreter for one year in Syria and six months in Iraq.
Earlier, The Bell published an investigation, which revealed the identity of the creator and the chief administrator of the anonymous pro-government telegram channel “Rybar” with an audience of millions. The publication claimed that it was run by a former employee of the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry, 31-year-old Mikhail Zvinchuk.
The publication said that journalists were contacted by one of the readers, who claimed to know the creator of “Rybar”. He shared the phone number of the author of the telegram channel, and the journalists were able to identify him.
But who is going to win the winter offensive?
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Raytheon
Ukraine is resilient.
Putin with his morning glass of vodka.
And Putin might have lost a sub or Kalibr ship yesterday in the Black Sea during the attack.
Update on Russian military operations in and around Ukraine for December 17, 2022:
- Russian missiles and drones deliver massive damage to Ukrainian electrical infrastructure;
- The extensive damage reported by Russian strikes contradicts Kiev’s claims of intercepting “most” Russian missiles and drones;
- Pentagon plans training program for 500 Ukrainian forces per month falling far short of necessary numbers just to replace lost Ukrainian manpower;
- Ukrainian General Zaluzhny admits a growing logistical crisis and shortcomings regarding Western systems transferred to Ukrainian forces;
- Zaluzhny complains about HIMARS’ limited range; - Zaluzhny demands arms deliveries on a scale the US and NATO are incapable of;
Your Putin has a habit of losing subs. Wha happen?
It's easy to post this horse manure if you don't live in Ukraine and aren't suffering.
Just when it looked like Dennisaw or Timber might assume the role of head clown here, you post something that proves you're the biggest clown of all.
You have no shame. You don't care how wrong your sources have consistently been.
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