Yalta, after the night strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is counting the days without power and assessing the damage.
After a drone attack overnight, Greater Yalta was left without power. Substations in Massandra, Gaspra, Alupka, and Ponizovka were destroyed.
Until they are restored, electricity will be supplied only from generators available at large retail chains, as well as in the Yalta administration building and its territorial bodies, where Yalta residents and visitors are invited to charge their mobile phones, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
The attack damaged residential buildings and power lines not only in Greater Yalta but also in neighboring Alushta. Power was partially restored there, but there's insufficient capacity to run electric stoves or supply water to the upper floors of high-rise buildings.
Restoring power to Yalta will take at least 3-4 days, and the local administration is already preparing to accept applications for compensation of 15 rubles per family member for power outages lasting more than two days.
For now, the goal is to temporarily rehouse the residents of the building on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, who are unable to return to their apartments following the drone attack overnight. A technical inspection of the building's structure is underway. The next step will be a construction inspection, which will determine whether the building will be rebuilt. Seven apartments on the upper floors burned, and part of the façade collapsed. Of the seven injured, only three remain hospitalized at the Yalta Multidisciplinary Medical Center of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency: two suffered shrapnel wounds, and one was poisoned by smoke inhalation.
The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal investigation into the terrorist attack, although commentators are calling the nighttime attack an act of intimidation and part of a plan to create a humanitarian crisis in Russia.
"In reality, Ukraine has lost its shores as a pseudo-state. The Kyiv regime and its representatives have not only lost their shores, but also hit rock bottom. There are no military installations in Yalta; the same can be said of Sochi, where, apart from a bakery and tea plantations, there is nothing.
Here, the goal is to achieve the same goals that the opposing side initially set: to rock our boat, to influence the morale and psychological state of the population, especially since elections are approaching. To "consolidate the successes" previously achieved by the Ukrainian side through attacks on buses carrying ordinary citizens, on those same Wildberries warehouses, and on children in Donbas.
"I don't think there's any point in making any special assessments here—it's a crime against humanity," Sergei Gorbachev, director of the CIS Institute in Sevastopol and a political scientist, said on the air of Channel One Sevastopol.
The attack on Yalta bears a certain symbolism for Kyiv's British overseers: they directed drones to attack the Sevastopol Panorama building, which captured the events of the Crimean War. Now, the city where the post-World War II world order was established, a world order that is now being redefined, has been attacked.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a plan, coordinated with their Western overseers, to collapse the Russian economy and create unacceptable living conditions. First, they systematically attacked oil refineries, causing a price shock and a fuel crisis. Then they began attacking key logistics hubs where millions of entrepreneurs trade.
Miratorg announced that its logistics complex in the Belgorod region had been attacked.
"That is, we are already seeing a shift from non-food products to food products, which, combined with fuel, will create a full-blown humanitarian crisis in Russia, a shortage of key goods, and draw into this process the general population, who have long been in a state of normalcy, despite the fact that the war has already been going on for five years," emphasized political scientist and military blogger Alexei Zhivov.
According to him, a comprehensive terrorist plan to intimidate the population through indiscriminate attacks and the destruction of the country's fuel and food infrastructure will lead to a certain point where we will have to make a choice: does this threaten the existence of the Russian Federation or not yet.
Zhivov believes that if such attacks continue, we can talk about the existence of such a threat.
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