https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/world/europe/russia-missile-attack-ukraine-energy.htmlalt https://archive.is/zmWFYUkraine said the attacks targeted energy infrastructure, leaving millions without power. Russia said they were retaliation for Kyiv’s use of long-range U.S. missiles.image: Taking shelter in a subway station after an air raid warning in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday. Credit Tetiana Dzhafarova/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images4 min read unless you're retardedBy Maria VarenikovaReporting from Kyiv, UkraineNov. 28, 2024Updated 10:35 a.m. ETRussia attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure with missiles and drones on Thursday, in what President Vladimir V. Putin said was retaliation for Kyiv’s hitting Russian territory with long-range American missiles.Mr. Putin suggested that such strikes could be stepped up, after millions of Ukrainians were left without power on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s energy ministry said it was the 11th major attack on the country’s energy infrastructure this year.The total extent of the damage was not immediately clear, but explosions were heard in cities across Ukraine, and many officials reported power outages. Six people were reported injured across the country, according to the regional authorities.“The energy sector is under massive enemy attack again,” Ukraine’s energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, wrote on his Facebook page. The operator of the Ukrainian transmission system “has urgently introduced emergency power outages,” he added.
>>1364757Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in an escalating cycle of strikes against each other in recent weeks. While attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure have long been a tactic used by Russia, some analysts say both sides are also trying to improve their negotiating position before the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.Mr. Trump has promised to end the conflict, without specifying how.Speaking at a meeting of a Moscow-led security alliance in Kazakhstan, Mr. Putin warned that Russian strikes on Ukraine could intensify, saying that his country has been selecting targets for missile strikes in Kyiv and that they might include “decision-making centers” in the Ukrainian capital.“At present, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff are selecting targets to hit on Ukrainian territory,” Mr. Putin said. “These could be military facilities, defense and industrial enterprises, or decision-making centers in Kyiv.”Mr. Putin said that Russia would respond forcefully to strikes on its territory with the use of long-range Western-made missiles, “possibly continuing to test the Oreshnik in combat conditions.”The Oreshnik is a new intermediate-range ballistic missile that Russia said last week it had launched at Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s recent use of American and British weapons to strike deeper into Russia.Mr. Putin said Russia has several Oreshnik missiles in stock that are “ready to be used.”After the strikes Thursday, more than a million people were without power in the western regions of Lviv, Volyn and Rivne, officials said. Further to the east, the city of Zhytomyr in central Ukraine was without power and water. The southern city of Kherson was also without electricity, as was much of Kyiv.
>>1364758Ihor Polishchuk, the mayor of Lutsk in the Volyn region of western Ukraine, said there had been several hits on his city and the surrounding area. Six people were reported injured across Ukraine, according to the regional authorities.Russia has attacked cities in Ukraine with drones almost every night since September in a campaign that analysts say is intended to test and wear down air defenses, and it has recently stepped up missile attacks.The attacks have also targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in an effort to plunge the population into cold and darkness as winter sets in.Ukraine’s Air Force reported that 91 missiles and 97 drones were fired at the country overnight. It said that 79 missiles were downed, and all of the drones were either downed or jammed. All told, 188 strikes were aimed at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, the air force said.In his comments Thursday, Mr. Putin said Russia had launched “a comprehensive strike” overnight on Ukraine using 90 missiles and 100 drones. He said 17 targets, including “military facilities, defense industry facilities and support systems” were hit.
>>1364759Cruise and ballistic missiles were launched from planes that took off from airfields in three Russian regions and Crimea, the air force said. The Black Sea fleet at Novorossiysk also contributed to the attack with Kaliber cruise missiles.More than 40 percent of the country’s generating capacity had already been destroyed and occupied before Thursday’s attacks, according to Stanislav Ignatiev, executive director of Ukraine’s Institute of Sustainable Development, a nongovernmental organization.The damage and destruction of Ukraine’s power generating capacity means that the country will face energy problems for a while, analysts said.“Unfortunately, we have to state that in the near future, we will be limited in generating capacity for at least three to four years until we build new ones,” Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Center, an independent institute, said on Nov. 25.The strikes on Thursday came just after Mr. Trump appointed a retired general, Keith Kellogg, as his special representative for Ukraine and Russia.Mr. Kellogg is a co-author of a peace proposal submitted to Mr. Trump last summer that included a moratorium on NATO membership for Ukraine and that would leave Russia in charge of the Ukrainian territory it currently occupies.
>>1364760Yurii Shyvala, Anastasia Kuznietsova, Ivan Nechepurenko and Anatoly Kurmanaev contributed reporting.Maria Varenikova covers Ukraine and its war with Russia. More about Maria Varenikova:https://archive.is/z7f6o
It was so kind of Biden to escalate the conflict right before leaving office
Fuck around and find out
Guess none left for Syria.
Do you mean Putin could do this stuff all along, and didn't? I thought this was WAR!
>>1364762How did he escalate?
>>1364762>Russia didn't invade Ukraine>Biden is actually the one attacking RussiaWhat kind of failed Russian narrative is this supposed to be?
>>1364762like Trump and his economy b4 leaving office
>>1364838Putin says NO MORE MR NICE GUY.
Hunter Biden caused this
>>1364855>>1364762Don't forget Trump and Afghanistan
>>1364757Omg so huge. This bombardment was wearing grey sweatpants and my girls were like... Ooooommmggggg.Those 3 years of killing Ukrainian civilians are like nothing compared to this thick, girthy bombardment
