Russia arrests three officials over heating outages south of Moscow

Reuters ^ | 1/9/2024 | Reuters

[marcusmaximus]

Russian investigators said on Tuesday they had arrested three people over heating outages south of Moscow that have sent regional officials scrambling to restore services and drawn scrutiny from the Kremlin.

Authorities blamed the breakdown on failures at a boiler plant owned by a private ammunition factory. The heads of the heating plant and the factory were arrested on suspicion of providing unsafe services, investigators said in a statement.

The deputy head of the local administration was also detained on suspicion of certifying the heating plant as adequate for winter despite allegedly knowing about defects that needed to be fixed.

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Residents gathered in a local sports centre on Tuesday to escape their freezing homes. Larisa, a financial manager, said the temperature in her apartment was about 4 Celsius (39 Fahrenheit).

"There has been no heating for six days already. Tomorrow will be a week," she said, adding that the electricity supply was too erratic to turn on a TV or a fridge.

[marcusmaximus]

"There has been no heating for six days already. Tomorrow will be a week," she said, adding that the electricity supply was too erratic to turn on a TV or a fridge.

[BobL]

“Russia arrests three officials over heating outages south of Moscow”

Was one of them Governor Abbott?

[marcusmaximus]

Beto? Is that you?

[BobL]

“Beto? Is that you?”

What gave it away, the “B”.

[dforest]

What is the story here and why should we care?

[desertsolitaire]

and “Don’t bother trying to find her..
She’s not there!!!”
the Zombies.

[dforest]

My internet keeps going down and those crooks at Comcast don’t care.

I think I will start a thread about it. heh

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Part of the Russian early warning network which guards against ballistic missile attacks, near Solnechnogorsk in Moscow, is without power.

[dfwgator]

Send ‘em straight to The Ukrainian Front!

[dforest]

I can’t worry about that.

[Kazan]

Why Ukraine's 2024 Strategy Will Fail & Why Isolating Crimea is Impossible

Jan 10, 2024

Why Ukraine’s 2024 Strategy Will Fail

- Ukrainian President Vlodymr Zelensky laid out Ukraine’s 2024 strategy in a recent interview with The Economist;

- The focus will be on “isolating” Crimea;

- Crimea can be supplied entirely by sea and air, with any single port exceeding the capacity Russia required to sustain combat operations in Syria for 2015;

- Without enough long-range missiles to attack all or at least most of Crimea’s ports and airfields and do so regularly, Russia will be able to maintain the flow of supplies for both the civilian population and Russia’s military presence on the peninsula;

- Another popular strategy of “digging in” and “building” throughout 2024 is also disconnected from the realities of the conflict and both Ukraine’s and its Western sponsors’ capabilities;

- Ukraine has already “dug in” since 2014 in frontline cities which Russia has nonetheless been able to displace Ukrainian forces and take these heavily fortified cities;