Millionen Menschen in Westrussland ohne Strom aufgrund von Atomkraftwerksausfall, Rekordtemperaturen und Drohnenangriffen in Kiew

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1. Main points:

   Kremlin-appointed officials responsible for electricity deliveries in southwest Russia and Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine on Friday were struggling to halt accelerating blackouts and prevent collapse of the regional power grid, as millions of power consumers sat in the dark or sweltered without air conditioners.

   A punishing trifecta of an emergency shutdown of one of four reactors at one of Russia’s biggest nuclear power stations, record-high temperatures that meteorologists predict will last at least another week, and damage caused by Ukrainian drones targeting transformer stations was responsible for rolling black-outs, emergency shut-downs and other interruptions to service.

   Gray-outs and power failures were reported most often in densely-populated cities and districts of Russia’s southwestern Rostov Oblast, and across the border with Ukraine in the Russia-occupied Crimea peninsula and Donetsk region – a land space roughly the size of Poland and home, prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to some eight million people.

   A Friday statement from DonEnergo, the state-run power company delivering electricity to customers in Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine and southwest Russia said: “due to extreme rises of air temperatures to and above 39 degrees Centigrade the power grid of the joint electrical power systems South is suffering a significant load…making necessary rolling blackouts to power users.”

2. Hoping the Russians will now start pressure Putin to stop his maniac war against Ukraine.

3. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

4. What? You mean to say war has consequences?

5. Wonder what they’re being told about why it happened

6. Good. Fuck Russia.

7. Keep up the good work Ukraine

8. What does this say about the condition of their nuclear weapons if they can’t even keep their nuclear plant running when its in constant use?

9. Good. Hopefully Moscow starts experiencing the effects of Putin’s Folly too.

10. ya get what ya fucking deserve.

11. Good. Now take Moscows power