Posted on 01/30/2026 2:03:41 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
"Ukraine saw a rare overnight lull in attacks on energy infrastructure after President Trump personally urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pause strikes — but the Kremlin said Friday the brief reprieve will last only through Sunday.
There were no overnight strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine after Trump called on Putin to spare them as frigid temperatures leave civilians in danger of freezing to death, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post to X.
“Over the past night, there were no strikes on energy facilities,” Zelensky wrote.
But that didn’t stop Moscow from continuing to hit other civilian infrastructure across the country.
“Drone attacks on ordinary residential buildings in cities also continue,” the Ukrainian president said. “A ballistic missile was used against the Kharkiv region – civilian production warehouses were damaged, including those of an American company.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Good thing Ukraine is winning or things could get bad for them.
Yeah, wasn’t there a war in Ukraine?
A week before the invasion UK synced their grid up with europe. Putin didn’t like it. The war will probably end with the territory takeover and the grid synced back up with Russia.
Heh. My wild guess for the moment is that Trump is doing the “tiny steps” approach to his hopeful coming peace agreement (which I don’t think will happen yet). He begged Putin for mercy on the civilians, and Putin threw him a bone. Zelensky had to agree or look really bad.
For the first time, Putin and Zelensky have agreed on something, so Trump has that going for him, momentarily.
LOL, so Russia is winning?
In 2025 Russia suffered around 420,000 casualties to gain control of just 0.8% additional Ukrainian territory. This brought its total losses since the full-scale invasion to over 1.2 million personnel."
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-facts-show-russias-victory-in-ukraine-is-far-from-inevitable-uk-statement-to-the-osce
Ukraine is winning. That's what I said. Can't you read?
Or, neither side is winning.
“The overall front is best described as ‘dynamic stagnation,’ meaning intense combat with marginal geographic change,” said Ivan Torres, a retired US Army major who is now senior Russian armed forces analyst for Rochan Consulting, a Polish research group.
No, Ukraine is winning. The trolls say so. It must be true.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlelmen. I say it would be more truthful to say that BOTH sides are LOSING.
No, Ukraine is winning. The trolls say so. It must be true.
The numbers are all over the place.
This author is not a journalist, he didn’t spare one sentence to mention that Ukraine is also attacking Russian cities and energy facilities
“This author is not a journalist, he didn’t spare one sentence to mention that Ukraine is also attacking Russian cities and energy facilities”
I was waiting for someone to notice that, good.
The war will probably end with the territory takeover and the grid synced back up with Russia.
Somehow it's more than likely all sides in this war have breached any supposed ceasefire. After all, how does one tell when a "civilian energy" entity is only civilian, on any side?
“Good thing Ukraine is winning or things could get bad for them.”
Yeah, they’re winning. They got back 25%, or was it 35% of the land Russia took.
After Sunday, its back to the regularly scheduled genocide/extermination of Ukrainians.
“After Sunday, its back to the regularly scheduled genocide/extermination of Ukrainians.”
Odd, I thought Russians were the ones dying the most.
You missed the memo: all Ukrainians are to be exterminated, not just soldier on the front lines - you much have missed all the mega drone attacks on the civilian infrastructure as well.
See here:
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
Russian propagandist Solovyev calls for the killing of Ukraine’s civilian population:
“We shouldn’t deceive ourselves - everyone must be destroyed. Enough of feeling sorry for them.”
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2017001327730024639
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Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2015787945924382744
A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.
It already has a name: “Kholodomor” (exhaustion through cold)
This crime is being deliberately committed by Russia.
In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide.
Under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, one of the defining acts of genocide is:
“Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
Many Ukrainian cities - Kyiv foremost among them - have been without electricity, heating, and water for the second week in a row, amid severe frosts.
What does this mean?
It means people are being condemned to death by Russia.
This is what is happening:
▪️ Elderly people cannot leave their apartments to buy food or water because elevators do not work - or because they are physically unable to walk down the stairs;
▪️ No communication: mobile phones are dead, there is no way to call for help or an ambulance;
▪️ Sick people cannot use life-sustaining medical equipment because there is no electricity at home;
▪️ Mothers of small kids carry their children and strollers up staircases in high-rise buildings - along with water and food;
▪️ No hot meals and no possibility to cook food at home;
▪️ Sewer system failures, creating critical and dangerous conditions;
▪️ Illness caused by extreme cold and the inability to stay warm;
▪️ Children cannot attend schools because there is no heating. Distance learning is also impossible without electricity;
▪️ Kindergartens are closed, mothers cannot work, earn money to feed their children;
▪️ Stray animals are freezing to death on the streets;
▪️ Even pets are dying from the cold - parrots, aquarium fish, animals kept in terrariums;
▪️ Animals in zoos are freezing;
▪️ Collections of rare plants in Kyiv’s botanical gardens have frozen and died;
▪️ Small businesses are earning nothing, forced to spend money on generators and fuel - causing direct losses to the economy;
▪️ Severe harm to the environment and public health due to the constant operation of massive numbers of generators;
▪️ Public transport functions far worse due to power outages; electric transport does not operate at all, leaving people unable to reach work, doctors, or essential services;
▪️ Burst pipes and freezing temperatures are destroying homes, making them uninhabitable;
▪️ Hospitals are forced to cancel planned surgeries, operating in emergency mode and at full capacity;
▪️ Rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout are sharply increasing.
Russia wants to make large Ukrainian cities uninhabitable.
This is a humanitarian catastrophe deliberately caused by Russia.
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