The Ukrainians have been able to strike into Russia proper, near Belgorod, with nigh impunity. This is a situation that has been unfolding for months now. Attack helicopters were sent into Belgorod, sabotage teams from the Ukrainian side, you name it. Depots, oil storage facilities, electrical stations and so on have been targeted, and the occasional missile hits someone’s home.
Not sure why you think attacks on the electrical grid will have no effect. You can keep repairing things ... until you can't. And, the Winter has not even arrived yet. The US completely destroyed the electrical grid in Iraq, which is one reason resistance collapsed, and it did not take 8 months.
Sorry for the length, but here is a 'Western Expert' on what can happen.
By the way, the precedent for the Russian General Staff and Kremlin for destroying a country’s electrical grid was set during the NATO bombing of Serbia and then by the US air bombing of Iraq.”
Shutting off the power in the rump Ukrainian state will do just that to the Ukrainians. If they then start to flee for refuge to Poland and Germany, this will be a disaster unparalleled in recent European history. Just the attendant collapse in telecommunications will make the place a madhouse. You can well imagine the rest. Already there are queues for water in Nikolaev, and who knows where else. How does queueing for water, if there is any, in temperatures of minus-20C to minus-40C sound? This won’t be like the blackouts from US sanctions and attacks in Cuba or Venezuela – there they didn’t have to worry about freezing to death, the pipes bursting, or irreparable damage being done to billions of dollars’ worth of pumping, electrical, and other equipment due to freezing.”
“How many people realize that a sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) circuit breaker, commonly used in electrical substations, requires an electric heating blanket to be functional in sub-zero weather? Most westerners don’t. They are common in high voltage substations which ultimately feed the grid lines with power. In the Ukrainian case, I suspect there is a mixture of those and older style oil circuit breakers (OCB), along with oil-filled large power transformers (LPT), which are essential to electrical distribution. And guess where most of the oil comes from to fill these devices?”
“I suspect that most of Zelensky’s officials and officials in the supporting EU governments have persuaded themselves with their own propaganda. They aren’t daring to think through these questions, any more than they care to understand that the housing of the pumps delivering their water and treating their sewage will freeze and split apart if they are not heated via electrical means. Even if the gas is on — and it won’t be — electricity is needed to ignite, then control, furnaces. How many of these officials understand the long lead times, compounded by manufacturing shutdowns due to high energy costs, which you must have to replace and restore everything?”
Reading the grid maps of the Ukraine, the source says “it is obvious that the real vulnerability, in my estimation, lies in the approximately 88 substations for 330 kV distribution and 33 substations for 220 kV distribution. Note the nodes or junctions. Those are substations connecting the distribution lines which crisscross the Ukraine. These substations contain large power transformers, switchgear, DCS equipment [Distributed Control System] and other power quality and control equipment, spares etc. Widespread coordinated strikes on these substations will quickly overwhelm the Ukrainian ability to effect repairs and re-balance the loads on the generation stations. This will create a cascade effect whereby overloaded power plants, and distribution gear will ‘trip out’ over wide swathes of the country
“Any repair efforts will also be severely hampered, if not crippled, if utility yards where spare cables and other gear, as well as vehicles (bucket and line trucks, cranes etc.) are stored and parked are struck. Personnel losses among the finite number of utility crew members due to follow-up attacks and the inevitable mishaps that come with interacting with damaged or compromised high voltage electrical equipment, will quickly mount. If the attacks are launched during the hard winter months, the impact will be exponential, increasingly unmanageable and catastrophic as the hours go by.”
What bullshit. You strike to kill the enemy leadership. You strike to explode their logistics expenses. You strike to reduce their access to food, ammunition, fuel and water. Do I have to go on? Fuck occupation. Grind the enemy to dust where its sallies are launched from. You should have nobody in the DMZ or no-mans-land.
Putin & his government work for the globalist cabal.
The invasion of Ukraine was ordered by Putin's WEF masters to provide the 'justification' for Western sancations which are actually against the West, not Russia - to drive oil and gas prices through the roof, to decimate (particularly) Europan economies to prepare the way for the Great Reset.
Putin & Co. are under orders to keep the Ukraine war going - but not to make any progress with it.
How so few people can see what is so glaringly obvious just bewilders me. Putin & Co. did exactly the same, and said exactly the same, with the long-planned 'Covid crisis' and the pathogenic 'Covid vaccines' as every Western government - yet somehow people think that them obediently carrying out that globalist and WEF operation does not demonstrate who they work for!
If the strikes on infrastructure had been maintained they definitely would have had a positive effect in a few weeks, Strelkov said as much in one of his last Telegram posts. If NATO/the Ukraine isnt allowed to move their forces around the country like its still peacetime like they can at present it will be a legitimate "game changer" only for real this time. Even if Russia cant muster enough troops for a decisive offensive in the foreseeable future every last inconvenience that NATO/the Ukrainians have due to damaged transportation infrastructure and lack of electricity will aid the guys holding the line.
Theres tons of footage of the Ukrainians loading up tanks, artillery etc etc on their railways so if Moscow could be bothered to keep hitting their railhubs and terminals and at least force consistent delays in getting all that junk to the front that will help quite a bit in slowing down the enemy operational tempo. Force the Ukrainians to have to run their locomotives on diesel or whatever instead of electricity. Changing all that over will buy the guys at the front even more time to dig in and prepare a good defense. Literally every day Moscow can buy will pay off for the guys who need to hold the line in the meantime.
Thats whats so infuriating about Moscows abject apathy here. Sure the FSB are likely more concerned with harassing volunteers headed to the front than stopping terrorism but even if they were doing their job they still wouldnt be able to stop every terrorist attack. Sure Russia really cant stop every artillery barrage sent into Donetsk, they cant stop every last drone and missile attack on Russia proper but they can actually buy they guys at the front time and save some lives buy inconveniencing the enemy's logistics work by keeping heavy pressure on the enemy's transportation and electricity infrastructure. But like always apparently Moscow cant be bothered with that either.
And the Ukrainian Golems thrive off their tic tok/telegram gore porn. TURN THAT SHIT OFF or at least make the internet spotty AF. That absolutely will be a heavy blow to public morale. To me thats psych war 101 but maybe im missing something. Imagine if the Ukrainian public no longer has their gore porn peremoga BS and they no longer see the Zog west supporting them online due to no internet. Make them feel isolated and cut them off from the globohomo community, turning off their internet will pump the breaks on Ukranian society consolidating and rallying. The current younger demographic of Ukraine are just as much internet generation as anyone else and losing that will hurt.
So yeah even if theres no general offensive on the horizon on Russias end keeping pressure on the enemy's infrastructure is well worth it imo and its one thing they could do. Unfortunately like 99% of good things Russia could do they wont.
Putin has always desperately wished that he could be accepted by Western - i.e., globalist - leaders at the top table.
Whatever people care to believe that his motives were for invading Ukraine, I don't think that his heart is in it. He and his Foeign Minister have been politely pleading in the most respectful tones, the US and NATO to stop moving closer and closer to Russia's borders for years on end, always calling them 'our partners' and so on - and it's no wonder that after that endless respectful pleading for years on end resulted in no action by Russia against the West, that the globalist criminals running the West are not remotely bothered by Putin eventually having come around to making threats.
Putin only did the mobilization because if he hadn't done so, Russian patriotic forces might finally have started firguring out that Putin is in no universe an anti-globalist. He just wants to be accepted by the globalists as one of their own.
And so, Putin does the minimum that is necessary over the Ukraine war. Russia could have taken the whole of Ukraine in a heart beat if they had committed the required forces to achieve that - but instead, Putin very reluctantly did the absolute minimum that he could which would keep Russian patriotic forces supporting him.
why, such naïve I am, I thought Russia would easily won :
-I thought its aircraft would bomb the roads where western send arms, near Poland
-I thought Russia had more troops than Ukraine
-I thought Russia would bomb bridges, powerplants, railways, official ukroTV
Yes, they did a great job, taking all those lands in inferiority of troops, and yes, I'm even not close to a couch general, but I don't understand why they fought an arm on the back.
It is clear that the Jews running the war for the Ukraine and the US don't care about the lives of the Ukrainian goys. If Putin really wanted to hurt the Ukrainian government he would target cities with the most Jews starting with Kyiv and lviv. He would also have the military in Syria start shooting down Israeli planes
This is really the effect of a lack of mobilization for war. Russia doesn't want a bloody war. I'm assuming someone was under the impression they could do what Americans do and only lose 1000 troops a year while annihilating the competition, this is no longer the case and plans have changed. Russia can't push Ukrainians back because then they have to go conquer a lot territory. Russia obviously doesn't wish to commit to a campaign to conquer Kharkov right now. All these MLRSs and artillery are highly mobile.
A lot of early problems seemed to have been direct stalling from above and as we clearly see now the Russian army doesn't really have technological superiority, forcing this war to be an war of attrition. Again someone might have thought differently on day one.
As for the grid, it had a massive effect. Its fair to assume the electric grid is just redundancy onto more redundancies. Anyone who works for a living know that there isn't a single place on earth that can rebuild even a small substation in a day.
Fortunately the news seem to be looking good, looks like a lot morons on top are starting to realize that whether they want to or not the war will continue. I'm guessing they're building up for a proper rolling offensive at the moment.
Seems like NATO is in a position similar to the IJN in 1941: surprise attacks have won them a brief window of opportunity to run riot. But whereas Yamamoto had months between Pearl Harbor and Midway, NATO’s free reign is measured in weeks. They will do their best to inflict as much damage and disruption as possible before Russian momentum takes back the initiative. At least, that is how I am betting.
If they’re saying they have to train people, it means they’re buying time by disrupting from the air. If Russia has air superiority, Kiev cannot organize. Guerrilla attacks won’t accomplish much. I think Putin is letting the civilian population know they have little to fear if they stay away from Kiev forces and do not help them. Everyone knows Russia cannot back down. That’s pretty persuasive when u compare it to the disgusting, illegitimate Kiev/NATO regime. Everyone is now questioning the legitimacy of NATO, even their own members.
Not sure why you think attacks on the electrical grid will have no effect. You can keep repairing things ... until you can't. And, the Winter has not even arrived yet. The US completely destroyed the electrical grid in Iraq, which is one reason resistance collapsed, and it did not take 8 months.
Sorry for the length, but here is a 'Western Expert' on what can happen.
http://johnhelmer.net/russian-army-fires-old-sparky-us-loses-the-electric-war-in-the-ukraine/
By the way, the precedent for the Russian General Staff and Kremlin for destroying a country’s electrical grid was set during the NATO bombing of Serbia and then by the US air bombing of Iraq.”
Shutting off the power in the rump Ukrainian state will do just that to the Ukrainians. If they then start to flee for refuge to Poland and Germany, this will be a disaster unparalleled in recent European history. Just the attendant collapse in telecommunications will make the place a madhouse. You can well imagine the rest. Already there are queues for water in Nikolaev, and who knows where else. How does queueing for water, if there is any, in temperatures of minus-20C to minus-40C sound? This won’t be like the blackouts from US sanctions and attacks in Cuba or Venezuela – there they didn’t have to worry about freezing to death, the pipes bursting, or irreparable damage being done to billions of dollars’ worth of pumping, electrical, and other equipment due to freezing.”
“How many people realize that a sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) circuit breaker, commonly used in electrical substations, requires an electric heating blanket to be functional in sub-zero weather? Most westerners don’t. They are common in high voltage substations which ultimately feed the grid lines with power. In the Ukrainian case, I suspect there is a mixture of those and older style oil circuit breakers (OCB), along with oil-filled large power transformers (LPT), which are essential to electrical distribution. And guess where most of the oil comes from to fill these devices?”
“I suspect that most of Zelensky’s officials and officials in the supporting EU governments have persuaded themselves with their own propaganda. They aren’t daring to think through these questions, any more than they care to understand that the housing of the pumps delivering their water and treating their sewage will freeze and split apart if they are not heated via electrical means. Even if the gas is on — and it won’t be — electricity is needed to ignite, then control, furnaces. How many of these officials understand the long lead times, compounded by manufacturing shutdowns due to high energy costs, which you must have to replace and restore everything?”
Reading the grid maps of the Ukraine, the source says “it is obvious that the real vulnerability, in my estimation, lies in the approximately 88 substations for 330 kV distribution and 33 substations for 220 kV distribution. Note the nodes or junctions. Those are substations connecting the distribution lines which crisscross the Ukraine. These substations contain large power transformers, switchgear, DCS equipment [Distributed Control System] and other power quality and control equipment, spares etc. Widespread coordinated strikes on these substations will quickly overwhelm the Ukrainian ability to effect repairs and re-balance the loads on the generation stations. This will create a cascade effect whereby overloaded power plants, and distribution gear will ‘trip out’ over wide swathes of the country
“Any repair efforts will also be severely hampered, if not crippled, if utility yards where spare cables and other gear, as well as vehicles (bucket and line trucks, cranes etc.) are stored and parked are struck. Personnel losses among the finite number of utility crew members due to follow-up attacks and the inevitable mishaps that come with interacting with damaged or compromised high voltage electrical equipment, will quickly mount. If the attacks are launched during the hard winter months, the impact will be exponential, increasingly unmanageable and catastrophic as the hours go by.”
What bullshit. You strike to kill the enemy leadership. You strike to explode their logistics expenses. You strike to reduce their access to food, ammunition, fuel and water. Do I have to go on? Fuck occupation. Grind the enemy to dust where its sallies are launched from. You should have nobody in the DMZ or no-mans-land.
Putin & his government work for the globalist cabal.
The invasion of Ukraine was ordered by Putin's WEF masters to provide the 'justification' for Western sancations which are actually against the West, not Russia - to drive oil and gas prices through the roof, to decimate (particularly) Europan economies to prepare the way for the Great Reset.
Putin & Co. are under orders to keep the Ukraine war going - but not to make any progress with it.
How so few people can see what is so glaringly obvious just bewilders me. Putin & Co. did exactly the same, and said exactly the same, with the long-planned 'Covid crisis' and the pathogenic 'Covid vaccines' as every Western government - yet somehow people think that them obediently carrying out that globalist and WEF operation does not demonstrate who they work for!
If the strikes on infrastructure had been maintained they definitely would have had a positive effect in a few weeks, Strelkov said as much in one of his last Telegram posts. If NATO/the Ukraine isnt allowed to move their forces around the country like its still peacetime like they can at present it will be a legitimate "game changer" only for real this time. Even if Russia cant muster enough troops for a decisive offensive in the foreseeable future every last inconvenience that NATO/the Ukrainians have due to damaged transportation infrastructure and lack of electricity will aid the guys holding the line.
Theres tons of footage of the Ukrainians loading up tanks, artillery etc etc on their railways so if Moscow could be bothered to keep hitting their railhubs and terminals and at least force consistent delays in getting all that junk to the front that will help quite a bit in slowing down the enemy operational tempo. Force the Ukrainians to have to run their locomotives on diesel or whatever instead of electricity. Changing all that over will buy the guys at the front even more time to dig in and prepare a good defense. Literally every day Moscow can buy will pay off for the guys who need to hold the line in the meantime.
Thats whats so infuriating about Moscows abject apathy here. Sure the FSB are likely more concerned with harassing volunteers headed to the front than stopping terrorism but even if they were doing their job they still wouldnt be able to stop every terrorist attack. Sure Russia really cant stop every artillery barrage sent into Donetsk, they cant stop every last drone and missile attack on Russia proper but they can actually buy they guys at the front time and save some lives buy inconveniencing the enemy's logistics work by keeping heavy pressure on the enemy's transportation and electricity infrastructure. But like always apparently Moscow cant be bothered with that either.
And the Ukrainian Golems thrive off their tic tok/telegram gore porn. TURN THAT SHIT OFF or at least make the internet spotty AF. That absolutely will be a heavy blow to public morale. To me thats psych war 101 but maybe im missing something. Imagine if the Ukrainian public no longer has their gore porn peremoga BS and they no longer see the Zog west supporting them online due to no internet. Make them feel isolated and cut them off from the globohomo community, turning off their internet will pump the breaks on Ukranian society consolidating and rallying. The current younger demographic of Ukraine are just as much internet generation as anyone else and losing that will hurt.
So yeah even if theres no general offensive on the horizon on Russias end keeping pressure on the enemy's infrastructure is well worth it imo and its one thing they could do. Unfortunately like 99% of good things Russia could do they wont.
Putin has always desperately wished that he could be accepted by Western - i.e., globalist - leaders at the top table.
Whatever people care to believe that his motives were for invading Ukraine, I don't think that his heart is in it. He and his Foeign Minister have been politely pleading in the most respectful tones, the US and NATO to stop moving closer and closer to Russia's borders for years on end, always calling them 'our partners' and so on - and it's no wonder that after that endless respectful pleading for years on end resulted in no action by Russia against the West, that the globalist criminals running the West are not remotely bothered by Putin eventually having come around to making threats.
Putin only did the mobilization because if he hadn't done so, Russian patriotic forces might finally have started firguring out that Putin is in no universe an anti-globalist. He just wants to be accepted by the globalists as one of their own.
And so, Putin does the minimum that is necessary over the Ukraine war. Russia could have taken the whole of Ukraine in a heart beat if they had committed the required forces to achieve that - but instead, Putin very reluctantly did the absolute minimum that he could which would keep Russian patriotic forces supporting him.
why, such naïve I am, I thought Russia would easily won :
-I thought its aircraft would bomb the roads where western send arms, near Poland
-I thought Russia had more troops than Ukraine
-I thought Russia would bomb bridges, powerplants, railways, official ukroTV
Yes, they did a great job, taking all those lands in inferiority of troops, and yes, I'm even not close to a couch general, but I don't understand why they fought an arm on the back.
It is clear that the Jews running the war for the Ukraine and the US don't care about the lives of the Ukrainian goys. If Putin really wanted to hurt the Ukrainian government he would target cities with the most Jews starting with Kyiv and lviv. He would also have the military in Syria start shooting down Israeli planes
https://jewishunpacked.com/who-are-the-jews-of-ukraine/
This is really the effect of a lack of mobilization for war. Russia doesn't want a bloody war. I'm assuming someone was under the impression they could do what Americans do and only lose 1000 troops a year while annihilating the competition, this is no longer the case and plans have changed. Russia can't push Ukrainians back because then they have to go conquer a lot territory. Russia obviously doesn't wish to commit to a campaign to conquer Kharkov right now. All these MLRSs and artillery are highly mobile.
A lot of early problems seemed to have been direct stalling from above and as we clearly see now the Russian army doesn't really have technological superiority, forcing this war to be an war of attrition. Again someone might have thought differently on day one.
As for the grid, it had a massive effect. Its fair to assume the electric grid is just redundancy onto more redundancies. Anyone who works for a living know that there isn't a single place on earth that can rebuild even a small substation in a day.
Fortunately the news seem to be looking good, looks like a lot morons on top are starting to realize that whether they want to or not the war will continue. I'm guessing they're building up for a proper rolling offensive at the moment.
Seems like NATO is in a position similar to the IJN in 1941: surprise attacks have won them a brief window of opportunity to run riot. But whereas Yamamoto had months between Pearl Harbor and Midway, NATO’s free reign is measured in weeks. They will do their best to inflict as much damage and disruption as possible before Russian momentum takes back the initiative. At least, that is how I am betting.
If they’re saying they have to train people, it means they’re buying time by disrupting from the air. If Russia has air superiority, Kiev cannot organize. Guerrilla attacks won’t accomplish much. I think Putin is letting the civilian population know they have little to fear if they stay away from Kiev forces and do not help them. Everyone knows Russia cannot back down. That’s pretty persuasive when u compare it to the disgusting, illegitimate Kiev/NATO regime. Everyone is now questioning the legitimacy of NATO, even their own members.