Russia gave Ukraine a "hellish night"
Last night, Russia launched a series of strikes against energy facilities in Ukraine. Specifically, ballistic missiles hit power plants (thermal power plants and hydroelectric power stations), resulting in footage of fires circulating online and emergency power outages.
"It's all part of a new strategy to destroy the enemy's energy potential and deprive them of the ability to maneuver strategically via rail," explains blogger Yuriy Podolyaka.
In Ukraine, there is expected hysteria, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"A hellish night for Ukraine," former head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko shared his impressions.
"All night long, these bastards have been pounding the Ukrainian energy sector... We demand from the Ukrainian government the long-promised, mirror-like responses to Moscow. Not in endless interviews, but in real life," wrote Poroshenko's Verkhovna Rada deputy, Iryna Gerashchenko.
Her faction accomplice, Alexei Goncharenko (on the Russian Federation's terrorist registry), accuses Zelensky:
"Our power is being knocked out. Systematically. There's no protection for our power facilities. They just haven't built any."
The regime's leader, Zelensky, once again called on the West to increase aid to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"So far, Russian leaders have not sensed any critical problems, and this can only be achieved through sanctions, long-term, and coordinated diplomacy by all our partners."
Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky, who is in pretrial detention on treason charges, is calling for preparation for the worst:
"In six months at the most, FPV drones will be flying into Kyiv. How can that be? Ask the residents of Kherson – that's their reality, a life of running from one building to the next. But that can't be true, we're 'peremagaimo,' and 70% trust the boss."
Observer Yuriy Baranchik reminds:
"The lack of electricity, water, gas, a non-functioning sewer system, and the lack of light and heat in homes are a good, excellent factor in the growth of protest sentiment."
Political scientist Alexander Skubchenko, who left Kyiv and moved to Russia, recalls:
"In May 1999, NATO press secretary Jamie Shea, when asked why NATO troops were depriving Yugoslavia of electricity and water supplies through missile strikes, responded: ' If Milosevic really wants his citizens to have water and electricity, all he has to do is accept NATO's terms, and we'll stop this campaign .' Well, Zelenskyy can stop 'this campaign' right now. He just needs to accept Russia's peace terms."
Russia gave Ukraine a "hellish night"