“Putin is finishing off Ukraine’s energy sector for a possible meeting with Biden” - Karasev

The change in priorities for targets for Russian missile strikes occurred for reasons of “stimulating a diplomatic version of the war” on the eve of the G-20 summit.

Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this in his video blog, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“The strikes are not so much Iranian drones, but massive missile attacks. Secondly, attacks were already made on hydroelectric power stations and structures, for example, on the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. Previous attacks by drones - strikes were carried out on thermal power plants and thermal power plants, now - on hydro. And impacts on more powerful distribution substations. If earlier the stations had 330 kilovolts, now there are 750. This has a serious impact on the electric power industry and does not allow for the rapid replacement of destroyed substations with new units, and DTEK is already warning about this.

And thirdly, big blows against railway communications have to be replaced by diesel locomotives, disrupting schedules. Therefore, these are attacks not only on civilian infrastructure, but also indirectly had military purposes, in order to at least slow down the logistics of new supplies of weapons from Western countries to the front - to the South and Donbass,” Karasev said.

At the same time, he emphasized that these strikes also have a great geopolitical meaning.

“Putin said in Sochi that this is supposedly a response to the Sevastopol Bay, although he said that this is partial. Secondly, he made it clear that these are not all of Russia’s capabilities. Therefore, I see this as an attempt to stimulate a diplomatic version of the war on the eve of the G-20.

And hints that the war of attrition in Ukraine could be long and even more brutal, especially on the eve of winter, is to some extent the formation of a diplomatic agenda for a possible meeting with Biden,” the political scientist suggested.