Posted on 06/22/2024 4:50:47 PM PDT by delta7
Ukraine’s energy grid has been firmly in the crosshairs of Russian missiles since the war began but this year Moscow began specifically targeting power generation facilities – thermal power plants, hydroelectric power stations, even energy storage facilities – a marked shift in tactics from the previous winter, when the attacks were less precise, and the damage easier to repair. Experts say Russia has been using better weaponry and taking advantage of thin Ukrainian air defenses.
At Ukraine’s reconstruction conference in Berlin in mid-June, President Volodymyr Zelensky laid out the scale of the destruction from the first six attacks. “Russian missile and drone strikes have already destroyed 9 GW of capacity, while the peak energy consumption in Ukraine last winter was 18 GW. So, half of it does not exist anymore,” he said.….
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
And the war cheerleaders will say they are winning….Ukraine finally unplugged…..the irony? Their sewage waste systems are non functioning, that terrible Ukie stench, so fitting.
Well,well,well shifting tactics almost 2 1/2 years in so much for the concept of mighty Russia.
Some fun math-
even if I was a Russian sympathizer, I’d be fed up with Putin by now.
Imagine if NY with 145million people found between $180 and $250billion dollars lying in the road. (the same as Vlad’s found money due to climate juiced energy prices if he was getting market prices)
Instead of spending the money on the welfare of the state-
they chose to engage in some war that 2 1/2 yrs later has roughly cost $225 billion dollars and accomplished next to nothing.
It would be insane.
(apparently, I’ve overstated the size of the Russian economy for 2 1/2yrs, it is smaller than CA, TX and NY and all this time I had it pegged at 1 1/2 times NY)
I’m surprised they didn’t do this on day one.
“I’m surprised they didn’t do this on day one.”
Probably because this would be a walk in the park and they’d just take over and operate like the old Soviet union.
Me too!
In between porn, I’m constantly being told that Putin is an 8D chess grandmaster tactician.
I overstated the size of the Russian economy by 50% for almost 2 1/2 years.
It’s time to understand how miniscule the
Russian economy happens to be when we’re comparing the might to former USSR and the delusional idolizing deep second world Russia.
I’m surprised they didn’t do this on day one.
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Ukrainians are fellow Slavs, and many ethnic Russians live in Ukraine ( not now, 8 million ethnic Russians fled to Russia)…which demographics show Ukraine’s population is down ftom 40 million pre war to today : 23 million plus minus.
They are depleted. No manpower, no infrastructure, no electricity, turning to a wasteland but the western narrative will still have you believe they are somehow winning.
Troubling, this latest move signals the much talked about “:dead zone”, a huge 3-400 kilometer DMZ,, up to the Dniepner. St Z should have never turned down the past two negotiations, they will be lucky to emerge a Rump state.
Ukraine’s power grid threatened? Dont worry about it, US taxpayers will pay for it. Read on.
By Justin Gomez and Molly Nagle, June 13, 2024, abcnews.com
Joe Biden touted on Thursday several new major U.S. commitments for Ukraine that were announced this week, including a 10-year bilateral security agreement, sanctions to disrupt Russia’s war machine, and a sign-off from the G7 on a $50 billion loan backed by frozen Russian assets.
Biden, in during a press conference in Italy with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the collective efforts by the G7 show that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot wait us out, he cannot divide us, and we’ll be with Ukraine until they prevail this war.”
On the bilateral agreement, Biden said the goal is to “strengthen Ukraine’s credible defense and deterrence capabilities for the long term.”
He reiterated his position that American troops will not fight in Ukraine, but the United States would provide them with weapons.
Zelenskyy called it a “historic day” after signing the “strongest agreement between Ukraine and the U.S. since our independence.”
PHOTOS: President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attend a press conference after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Fasano, Italy, June 13, 2024.
“This is an agreement on security and thus on the protection of human life. This is an agreement on cooperation, and thus on how our nations will become stronger. This is an agreement on steps to guarantee sustainable peace. And therefore, it benefits everyone in the world because the Russian war against Ukraine is a real, real global threat,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy was asked what his contingency plan is if the next U.S. president does not follow through with this agreement, but he suggested that as long as Americans support Ukraine, so will the American president. “If the people are with us, any leader will be with us in this struggle for freedom,” he said.
Highlighting the frozen Russian assets, Biden said the plan that’s been agreed to by the G7 is another reminder for Putin that “we’re not backing down.” “Collectively, this is a powerful set of actions and will create a stronger foundation for Ukraine’s success,” Biden said.
After Biden recently signed off on Ukraine using American weapons to strike in parts of Russia, limiting use to areas near the Russian-occupied Kharkiv region, he was asked if he would consider expanding those parameters to allow for longer-range strikes; he said his policy is still against that.
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir US weapons will not be used to strike Moscow, Kremlin. “It makes a lot of sense for Ukraine to be able to take out or combat what is coming across that border. In terms of long, long-range weapons, longer-range weapons into the interior of Russia, we have not changed our position on that sort,” he said.
Zelenskyy was asked about how long the supplemental support from the U.S. and other nations will get him on the battlefield. He said it’s not a matter of how long the aid lasts, but, more importantly, how long unity among nations will last. “I think the question has to be, for how long the unity will last? The unity in the United States, together with the European leaders — how these or those elections will influence this unity?” Zelensky said, via translation. “It seems to me that we should look on this exactly this way: to preserve unity, to preserve the integrity of the world, the integrity of the democratic world. Because if Ukraine does not withstand, the democracy, many countries will not be able to withstand, and I am sure of that,” he added.
apnews.com—4/24/24
Excerpt-—With the recent signing of the $95 billion US aid bill, Biden immediately approved sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance, the first installment from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine.
The package includes
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Biden also gave Ukraine the ok to fire US-provided missiles into Russia wherever it is coming under attack, Pentagon says
Meanwhile, Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials confirmed Wednesday.
The U.S. is providing more of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in the new military package, according to one official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Biden bill includes about $26 billion in aid for Israel and about $1 billion in humanitarian relief for Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war continues. Biden said Israel must ensure the humanitarian aid for Palestinians in bill reaches the Hamas-controlled territory “without delay.”
Well, well, well, we only spent a few trillion dollars and ten-plus years fighting turban heads in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the tribesmen of Vietnam.
How'd that turn out hot-shot?
So the Russkies fight the best the US and NATO has to offer for ten years and now control over 30% of former Ukieland.
Now, please, tell me again, who knows how to win?
I think I know the answer.
Really? Last year Russia overtook Germany, becoming the 5th largest. And this month the Russian economy overtook Japan to become the fourth largest in the world in PPP terms (purchase power parity), according to revised data from the World Bank released at the start of June.
St Z should have never turned down the past two negotiations, they will be lucky to emerge a Rump state.
There may be serious difficulty surviving as a rump state. When they get done losing, the money will stop flowing. Ukraine likely has no future. Zelensky should not have tweeted about NATO membership until after Ukraine was a member, and definitely not two days before Biden was scheduled to meet with Putin.
https://twitter.com/zelenskyyua/status/1404512788966514689?lang=en
@ZelenskyyUa
Ukraine government officialCommend @NATO partners' understanding of all the risks and challenges we face. [Ukraine] deserves due appreciation of its role in ensuring Euro-Atlantic security
1:55 PM · Jun 14, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/14/ukraine-biden-nato-press-conference-494460
Ukrainian tweet scrambles Biden’s press conferenceFor a few short minutes, it appeared Ukraine was on the path to NATO membership but that was not to be.
By ANITA KUMAR
06/14/2021 07:39 PM EDT
BRUSSELS — Just before President Joe Biden started his news conference Monday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that NATO agreed that his country could join the alliance.
“Commend @NATO partners’ understanding of all the risks and challenges we face,” he wrote. “NATO leaders confirmed that will become a member of the Alliance.”
Biden was inexplicably running late, two hours late, and the tweet suddenly appeared to explain what could be causing a delay.
Two days before Biden is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, news of Ukraine joining NATO would have sent a strong message to Russia. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and began supporting separatists in the country, Russia has continued to amass troops along the Ukrainian border.
On Twitter, foreign policy experts and journalists began to question what Ukraine’s announcement meant and what Biden would say. Some began to speculate Putin would cancel the meeting.
NATO, a 30-member alliance, was formed in 1949 to counter the Soviet Union. It pledge that an attack against one country is an attack against them all.
When Biden finally appeared in front of the cameras, he said NATO would stand behind Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity,” but didn’t mention the country joining the alliance. It quickly became clear that Ukraine had overstated what happened by not including when the country might be admitted.
NATO had merely reiterated a 2008 commitment that Ukraine will one day become a member. A U.S. official familiar with the matter said nothing had changed. “It’s very carefully worded to give support without committing to anything because the alliance is not unified on this,” the official said. Germany and France, in particular, are unlikely to support a path to membership.
Zelensky told reporters Monday he was looking for a “yes” or “no” answer from Biden on whether Ukraine would be admitted as a full member of NATO.
https://www.voanews.com/a/aside-from-kyiv-no-one-in-rush-for-ukraine-to-join-nato/6393900.html
Aside from Kyiv, No One in Rush for Ukraine to Join NATOJamie Dettmer
Voice of America
January 12, 2022 1:27 PMUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tweeted during a NATO summit he attended in June that Western leaders had confirmed his country “will become a member of the Alliance.”
The Ukrainian leader’s tweet, seen by some Western diplomats as ill-timed and intended to goad Russia, drew a predictably furious response from Kremlin officials. They have long warned that the accession of Ukraine to NATO is unacceptable to Moscow, the crossing of a red line which would be met by retaliatory measures.
About all that the Ukrainians have left are their nuke plants, which, unlike the Neocons, Russia DOES NOT TARGET (Russia doesn’t want a meltdown in Europe).
But that is a relatively small amount of power and, now that the transformers are being ‘neutralized’, they won’t be of much use anyway.
I think this indicates that we’re now entering the ‘end-game’ of this conflict, where civilian life in Ukraine will no longer be possible, and Europe will have some 25 MILLION refugees to deal with as the weather starts to get cold.
The BIG QUESTION is whether Europe really wants that many more ‘new arrivals’, or maybe they’ll want to put this Neocon nightmare behind them. We shall see.
“I’m surprised they didn’t do this on day one.”
They likely wanted to leave Ukraine intact for a number of reasons, including to reduce the suffering should the Neocons have come to their senses. But now Russia realizes that the Neocons are not about to let Ukraine escape from this war intact, so blackouts it is.
It doesn’t seem it like that is the case.
Russia’s economy is less than $2trillion/yr behind California, New York and Texas.
It is not the mighty USSR anymore in part because winning is not their thing.
There is no such thing as NATO and the US. The US is NATO, the rest are indefensible to a swarm of gnats.
The US is mightier now vs deep second world Russia, second world China and completely decimated militarily Europe than at almost anytime in US history.
“Well,well,well shifting tactics almost 2 1/2 years in so much for the concept of mighty Russia.”
Sure. Next, you’ll be telling us if we don’t watch out, they’ll be storming across the Vistula and the next thing you know, they’ll be back on the Elbe.
https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/russia-government-bonds
Russia is paying over 18% to borrow money with a $2trillion dollar GDP.
Where’s all that borrowing power?
Oh right no such thing exists.
“And this month the Russian economy overtook Japan to become the fourth largest (economy) in the world, according to revised data from the World Bank, released at the start of June.”
It starts getting difficult for the Zeepers as they are almost to the point of having to claim, literally, EVERYTHING that doesn’t go their way is ‘Russian Propaganda’.
So here is an article by CNN, in the REAL WORLD certainly no friend of Russia, and now you are quoting the World Bank, also certainly no friend of Russia.
Yet the Zeepers will again claim that it’s all fake. That is how they Gaslight, there is nothing else for them to do but simply sound like Hillary Clinton in blaming “The Russians” for everything that doesn’t go their way.
Russia has pledged not to destroy the nuclear piwer... but they can cut the distro. Because US continues to claim they are expanding Ukrainians MIC with new shell and equipment plants... they give Russia the ammunition to hit the power supply.
Ukrainians borrowed 52B in 22, 58B in 23 and over 50B in 24. This represents 37% of their economic production. Because of Ukraine defaults, the bond holders refused the haircut. Finance of the war is now a major political issue in the EU.
Ukraine spends nearly 40% of their economic output to service 3 years of war.
The majority of trains run on elec in Ukraine. All the coal, oil, and gas electric generation was destroyed in 2024. Prior to March 24, Russia did not seriously go after Ukrainian energy, except to hamper military operations.
Russia this week pounded the grid with 4 attacks. They are going to finish the grid before their offensive.
Late summer or early fall will be the Russian military offensive per the Russians. They love to keep the west guessing.
Russia finishes the DNC/Biden and EU warmongers by finishing Ukraine.
The sooner the better for citizens fleeced by the Big Guy since 2014.
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