Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine power grid • FRANCE 24 English

when the electricity is off in Kev you can usually tell by the sound of the generators that numerous cafes and restaurants have invested in along with other businesses to be able to keep running when the power is off last week the scheduled rolling power Cuts were about 2 hours per day this week or at least today it’s 6 to 8 hours apparently on the internet you can check the power company has a sort of infographic depending on your address telling you yes no or maybe will there the electricity these rolling power cuts are in part designed to allow for repairs on the grid um but clearly it’s because the situation is critical um on Saturday there’s been even further damage to an already very very severely damaged electricity infrastructure in Ukraine everybody is of course afraid of what’s going to happen in winter when demand for electricity is so much higher and some people’s heating also depends on the electricity Supply meanwhile Russia’s offensive in donbass seems to be gathering Pace to a degree particularly in the area of the town of porros there are two towns that are in Russia’s sites that are Ukrainian held towns in donet region poov and costantina it looks as though the Russians at the moment are trying their best to advance towards the road that links the two a few weeks ago they took the large Village of otin there are now reports that they’ve gone further and taken a village called novva though um the Ukrainian general staff is denying this and saying that fighting is still going on there at the same time the Russians have finally broken past what was the front line ever since 2014 in one more place taken the village of shumi that’s on the way to the town of tetk so it looks like Tores should also be added to the list of Ukrainian hell towns in donet region that are under pretty immediate threat but although the Russians are advancing very steadily with gains almost every day they’re still advancing pretty slowly on the radio this morning I heard a military expert saying that even though they’re only 7 kilm away from this key Road between costantina and poos it would take them two months to get there at the current rate of progress

Ukraine on Saturday said Russia had launched a “massive” overnight attack on energy infrastructure in the west and south, adding that at least seven people died in strikes elsewhere. Russia launched 16 cruise missiles from land, sea and air as well as 13 attack drones, aiming at energy infrastructure in several regions, Ukraine’s military said. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv.
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29 comments

  3. You have become complete moral freaks!! Ukraine struck the beach with peaceful residents of Crimea…more than 150 people were wounded…and you show a hospital for Ukrainian soldiers. You compare soldiers with civilians – how morally damaged do you have to be?

  4. What kind of a human waste one can be, to knowingly spread a propaganda that literally hurts everyone one earth, including the country that he lives in and where his kids are growing. Everyone with 2 grams of brain knows by now that Russia is attacked by NATO, not the other way around. 2 terrorist attacks happened yesterday, kids died, and not even a word about it in the Western media, but the Russian attack on the power grids is a act of terror? Yes, it is Putin's fault for not pressing that button yet

  10. Good – this is what Biden wants
    Biden wants a Frozen Conflict : he doesn't want Russia defeated
    Biden wants Ukraine to be forced to negotiate
    In effect Biden is happy to see Russia pounding Ukraine

  16. Obama refused to arm Ukraine in 2015; he said Russia could always escalate over anything we give Ukraine to fight with, meaning they'll never win and just get pulverized in the process. Obama was the smartest President since Nixon…

  17. I think EU is burning aid money in Ukraine war because such money could not be used effectively there, due to uncontrolled corruption, not well-trained soldiers. The given weaponry, the supported finance… All is being burned in Ukraine.

  20. Exciting the Ukrainians might have figured out the concept of blackout schedules. They are called 'load-shedding schedules' in Africa and Africans figured them out a long time ago. Go, Ukraine!

  24. Could it be related to the fact that Ukraine is using only electric locomotives to deliver military vehicles and ammunition to the battlefront? 🤖

  28. And Ukraine hit civilians in Crimea with western weapons Russia blames the US for guiding these weapons and the US as usual plays dump it was all Ukraines' fault we the US had nothing to do with it

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