Another massive Russian missile and drone attack targets zelensky’s energy infrastructure

Both Zelensky and his mentor Joe Biden should have expected a massive retaliation from Russia after they foolishly fired long range missiles against targets deep inside Russia.

No wonder Russia, as a return gift, conducted a “massive” attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Thursday, firing nearly 200 missiles and drones and leaving more than a million households without power.

This was Russia’s second major aerial attack on Ukraine’s power grid in less than two weeks amplified fears that the Kremlin aims to cripple the country’s power generation capacity before winter.

“Attacks on energy facilities are happening all over Ukraine,” Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko cried on a post on Facebook. He added that emergency power outages were implemented nationwide.

In some regions, Kalibr cruise missiles with cluster munitions smashed into civilian targets. Zelensky who himself asked for such a whacking is now crying hoarse saying it is “an insidious escalation.” Cluster munitions release numerous small bombs over a wide area, making them dangerous to civilians both during and after an attack.

Ukrainian officials have warned recently that Russia was stockpiling cruise and ballistic missiles, presumably for another pre-winter aerial campaign against Ukraine’s power grid. Ukrainian officials have in the past accused Russia of “weaponizing winter.”…..ha ha and ha.

Zelensky and his gang want to continue fighting but start crying when they get hurt. Around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed during the almost three years of war with Russia, and rolling electricity blackouts are common.

Kyiv’s Western allies have sought to help Ukraine protect power generation with air defence systems and funds for rebuilding.

Russia in previous years has targeted Ukraine’s electricity generation, aiming to hobble Ukraine’s defence industry that is now producing missiles, drones and armored vehicles, among other military assets.

The reduction of critical heating and drinking water supplies during the bitter winter months also helps in breaking the Ukrainian Warmongers spirits.

The war has not been going in zelensky’s favour in spite of Western support as its the much superior Russian army has started using its advantages in manpower and equipment to push Zelensky’s forces backward in eastern areas, with a slow but steady offensive.

Zelensky urged Western countries to accelerate delivery of promised air defence weaponry. Ukrainian officials in the past have grumbled that military aid is slow to arrive.

“Each such attack proves that air defence systems are needed now in Ukraine, where they save lives, and not at storage bases,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app.

The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andrii Yermak, said in a Telegram post that Russia had stockpiled missiles to strike Ukrainian infrastructure and wage war against civilians during the cold season.

“They were helped by their crazy allies, including from North Korea,” he wrote……this chap hereby certifies that countries of European Union and Biden of USA etc are very holy and sane people.

The head of the Lviv region in western Ukraine, Maksym Kozytskyi, said the attack left more than half a million households without electricity.

Over 280,000 households in the north-western Rivne region were without electricity because of the attack, according to regional Gov. Oleksandr Koval. Running water supplies were also patchy in affected areas. Some schools in Rivne city switched to online classes.

There were also strikes on the bordering Volyn region, where 215,000 households had no electricity, regional head Ivan Rudnytskyi said. All critical infrastructure that lost power was switched to generators.

Energy infrastructure was also targeted in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region, local officials said. Air defences were activated there, and emergency power outages were introduced.

Local officials ordered the opening of “points of invincibility” — shelter-type places where people can charge their phones and other electrical devices and get refreshments during blackouts.