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Zelensky: Russian Strikes Cause ‘Heavy Damage’ to Ukrainian Power Grid, Blackouts ‘Everywhere’
Breitbart ^ | 08/26/2024 | Frances Martel

Posted on 08/26/2024 8:13:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered an alarming update on nationwide Russian bombings of his country on Monday, describing blackouts “everywhere” and significant harm to Ukraine’s power grid.

The Russian military launched a sweeping drone and missile campaign on Monday in which it reportedly focused on bombing energy infrastructure. Some Russian media reported that the strikes impacted at least nine regions of Ukraine – including the capital, Kyiv – while Ukrainian state media listed at least “15 regions” suffering various negative effects from the “large-scale Russian attack” out of the nation’s 27.

The attack is the largest Russian operation within Ukraine since Zelensky authorized a counter-invasion of Russia on August 6, initially targeting the border region of Kursk and expanding into Belgorod and threatening the Bryansk region. The counter-invasion appeared to take Russian strongman Vladimir Putin by surprise, allowing Ukrainian forces to capture a significant slice of uncontested Russian territory on the Ukrainian border. Zelensky later explained in public remarks that the objective of the counter-invasion was allegedly to create a “buffer zone” to make it more difficult for Russia to transfer troops and military assets into Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beggarofkiev; blackouts; damage; escalation; killkillkillforpeace; mic; powergrid; russian; strikes; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; welfarewar; zeepersdelusional; zeepersindenial; zelensky
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To: Seruzawa
Guess Zee should have negotiated a peace when he had the chance.

Of course. I guess in your mind this is the fault of the Ukrainians who are defending themselves, not of the Russians who are attacking. Such logic!

21 posted on 08/26/2024 9:13:36 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: adorno

Need a Kleenex?


22 posted on 08/26/2024 9:18:30 AM PDT by ANKE69 ( ✌️ 🇺🇲 Beware of zeeper doxxing. )
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23 posted on 08/26/2024 9:20:13 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: ANKE69
Need a Kleenex?

Nope!

You can keep it...

For when your Team Russia loses and your tears start flowing like rain in a hurricane.
24 posted on 08/26/2024 9:25:01 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry Z. That crap happens in war.


25 posted on 08/26/2024 9:26:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! A vote for the Voo Doo Hoo Doo and Timmy is a vote for another four years of Kenyan BS.)
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To: Petrosius

Well, you guess wrong.


26 posted on 08/26/2024 9:30:32 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa
Well, you guess wrong.

In that case, please join in calling upon Putin to end this carnage by stopping his attack and by withdrawing his forces from Ukraine.

27 posted on 08/26/2024 9:36:56 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I assume ‘marcusmaximus’ will soon point our attention to this developement.


28 posted on 08/26/2024 9:48:34 AM PDT by A strike ("Rise Peter, kill and eat.")
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To: Petrosius

sorry, you lose


29 posted on 08/26/2024 9:50:46 AM PDT by A strike ("Rise Peter, kill and eat.")
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To: DesertRhino

Don Meredith sang it too. On Monday Night Football “ Turn out the lights. The Party’s over”


30 posted on 08/26/2024 10:11:51 AM PDT by RonnG ('')
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To: SaxxonWoods

Alexander Vindman - are you happy now, after you helped Joe Biden get elected? Was it worth the destruction of your country? I imagine that the five minute phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy does not sound so bad after all.


31 posted on 08/26/2024 10:44:57 AM PDT by phil00071
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now Volod, go ask all those Ukrainian men from the age of 18 to 60 to die for the country they can’t even vote in.


32 posted on 08/26/2024 11:04:17 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: tlozo

The new Ukrainian drone has an its “ range up to 700 kilometers (430 miles) — on par with the U.S.-supplied ATACMS. It showed a map with various airfields, including Russia’s Savasleyka air base, which lies within that range, adding that the Palianytsia can reach at least 20 Russian airfields.”


33 posted on 08/26/2024 12:31:18 PM PDT by 11th_VA (All Borders Matter)
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To: 11th_VA
The new Ukrainian drone has an its “ range up to 700 kilometers (430 miles) — on par with the U.S.-supplied ATACMS.

Sure, but the US ATACMS are of a much higher quality, in precision and speed, and they are available now.

34 posted on 08/26/2024 1:35:26 PM PDT by tlozo (Russia is ruled by a psychologically deranged dictator and worst of all, it obediently follows)
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To: 11th_VA

The key issues here: precision, warhead size, ability to fly below the long range radar detection and the scale of production.


35 posted on 08/26/2024 2:20:54 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: tlozo

Speed is not that important If this “drone” can fly relatively low, precision is critical - not sure If they got any technical support but theoretically they could install the western components in it or even just assemble them from parts mass produced abroad.


36 posted on 08/26/2024 2:45:19 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: BroJoeK
Of course, that's assuming the war ends without an exchange of nukes or other WMDs.

How exactly would there be an exchange of nukes? Ukraine gave up their nukes on the Russian promise that they wouldn't invade... Any nuking is gonna be a one-way street.

Unless, of course, Russia is stupid and doesn't plan it right and some other countries get hit with fallout. But Russians aren't thaaaat dumb.. Are they?
37 posted on 08/27/2024 8:06:59 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: Svartalfiar
Svartalfiar: "How exactly would there be an exchange of nukes?
Ukraine gave up their nukes on the Russian promise that they wouldn't invade...
Any nuking is gonna be a one-way street."

B54 SADAM -- Special Atomic Demolition Munition:

You think?

I count nine official nuclear weapons countries, but several others are suspected of having nuclear components ready to be assembled at a moment's notice.
And nukes have been built in all sizes and shapes, including so-called "suitcase bombs", perhaps better thought of as "backpack bombs", since they are literally man-portable.

Point is, I don't think Russians can start throwing their nukes at any other country on earth and expect to remain impregnable to all retaliations.
And Russians would not necessarily ever know who built the weapon, or how it was delivered, or when & where to expect retaliation.

Nor is nuclear retaliation the only potential response -- there are many non-nuclear responses that could cause serious and long-lasting damage to Russia's economy and capabilities.

My opinion is, throwing nukes would be the end for Russia as a nation and Russians as a people -- it would be a national version of "suicide by cop" or "Ukraine assisted suicide" and I doubt if any sane Russian seriously wants that.


38 posted on 08/28/2024 4:52:34 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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