Public sentiment is deeply conflicted regarding the Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Many individuals express strong support for Ukraine while condemning Russian actions as cruel and inhumane, with a notable emphasis on the humanitarian impact of the war. Simultaneously, there are voices justifying Russia's actions as retaliation and skepticism towards NATO's involvement. The overall atmosphere reflects despair over the ongoing violence, anxiety about potential escalation, and calls for increased support for Ukraine amid fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis as winter approaches.

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At this point, it's whoever can cause an energy crash first.

BringbackDreamBars

Spooknik

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Russia taking advantage of the very last days of the Gaza war to do as much lasting damage as possible to civilian infrastructure as this news cycle defense shield comes to an end. 
Hopefully.

mrpressydepress

I hope Ukraine will send all of it back and then some

keyboardplatoon

Europe: okay, time to buy energy resources from russia

hi_imovedagain

Permitty

Russia will eat nato for breakfast. China loves it (Taiwan) easy pickings

Ceooffreedom

Interception of most missiles and drones appears to be a distant possibility.  What about instead taking the fight to the Russians by replying to each attack with x10 number of drones going east to take out all Russian infrastructure within reach.  The west must be able to produce large quantities of shaheed equivalents; I suggest retooling car factories swiftly as we did in the 1940s against Nazism 1.0.  I want a swift and complete Russian defeat in Ukraine, not a new car!

Embarrassed_Lemon527

Time to start smacking the Russian electrical grid.

tallandlankyagain

From the article: Russia launched a large-scale missile attack at Ukraine in the early hours of Oct. 16, targeting cities in several regions, as well as Ukrainian energy infrastructure.  

"Russia launched more than 300 attack drones and 37 missiles, a significant number of them ballistic, against Ukraine," wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on X. "This autumn, the Russians use every single day to strike at our energy infrastructure."

Zelensky identified strikes hitting the regions of Poltava, Kharkiv, Sumy, Vinnytsia and Chernihiv.

The strikes began with MiG-31 bombers taking off from multiple Russian airfields around 5:20 AM. Shortly thereafter, explosions rocked multiple Ukrainian cities. Explosions were reported in Kharkiv and Izium (Kharkiv Oblast), Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovohrad Oblast), and Poltava, according to news outlet Suspilne.

Subsequent strikes hit Chernihiv and another round of explosions was heard in Kharkiv. Chernihiv Oblast Governor Dmytro Bryzhynskyi later reported that the attack struck an undisclosed enterprise in the city. Vyacheslav Chaus, the head of the oblast's military administration, wrote that a drone struck a residential building in the town of Nizhyn, injuring two people.

Four people were injured in Kharkiv Oblast during the morning attacks on energy infrastructure, a representative for the oblast's military administration told the Kyiv Independent.

Energy producer DTEK reported that the attacks struck a natural gas facility in Poltava Oblast. Emergency blackouts are now in place in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Later in the day, the Ukrainian military announced that two ballistic missiles had hit a Ground Forces training ground. They acknowledged casualties but did not specify numbers or the location of the strike.

Information about further damage and casualties is still coming in.

The attack comes hours after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop killing Ukrainians during a press conference in the Oval Office on Oct. 15.

Trump is set to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Oct. 17, where the two leaders will discuss Ukraine's long-range strike capabilities, air defense needs, and the possibility of the U.S. providing Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv.

Russia has warned that Tomahawks would be a major escalation that would demand an aggressive response — even as Moscow batters Ukrainian cities and civilian targets with long-range missiles night after night.

Moscow has been ramping up mass attacks against Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of winter, causing blackouts and heavy damage to critical facilities as the weather worsens and the nights get longer.

A mass missile attack against Kyiv on Oct. 10 damaged a thermal power plant in the city and left hundreds of thousands of households without power. The attack also killed a child and injured 24 people.

chrisdh79

Every time russia commits a war crime against ukraine, ukraine should get 20 billion from russias Brussels wealth fund, unless putin personally goes to Utrecht to defend himself.

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Please donate to the anti aircraft system on U24. It’s a very cost effective way to defend against drones. Every little bit helps!

DataGeek101

If only there was something Russia could do to stop the war.

highdimensionaldata

News snippet: Russia attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight into Sunday, part of an ongoing campaign to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter, and expressed “extreme concern” over the U.S. potentially providing Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.

Kyiv regional Gov. Mykola Kalashnyk said two employees of Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK were wounded in Russian strikes on a substation. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said that infrastructure was also targeted in the regions of Donetsk, Odesa and Chernihiv.

“Russia continues its aerial terror against our cities and communities, intensifying strikes on our energy infrastructure,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, noting that Russia had launched “more than 3,100 drones, 92 missiles, and around 1,360 glide bombs” over the past week.

AndroidOne1

Ukraine should be hitting back like for like but x10

Russian power grid needs to be kaput also, especially in Moscow and St Petersburg. The oil and gas infrastructures are going slowly off grid, the power needs to follow, it can get very cold in the major cities in Russia during winter.

vossmanspal

Come on Trump, authorize the transfer of Tomahawks.

DeanoPreston

If Russias response to every worry is more aggression then they are just making NATO/EU worry more and ramp up their Ukraine support and preparations.  This is a bad cycle that only Russia can stop.

And that seems very unlikely.

Secret-Temperature71

"as Moscow worries over US Tomahawk missiles"

They can stop the worries right away simply by stopping this invasion of Ukraine.

NyriasNeo

"Pitbull digging teeth into neighborhood kid worries that large knife being reached for"

Upstairs-Painting-60

So Russia wants a black Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg ?

povlhp

Macleod99

What was it that Zelensky said yesterday about striking Russian Energy Infrastructure if Russia were to strike Ukraine's?

Time for Russia to experience blackouts all over.

Inglorious555

From the article: Russia launched a large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight on Oct. 10, killing a child and injuring at least 24 people in the country while leaving a part of Kyiv without electricity and water.

At least twelve people were injured in the capital, while a 7-year-old boy was killed and seven people were injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. Five civilians were wounded in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Multiple regions introduced emergency power shutdowns amid strikes on the energy grid.

The attacks come amid Russia's intensifying aerial campaign targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of the winter months.

Loud explosions and ballistic missiles were reported by Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time as Russia carried out an attack on the Ukrainian capital. Additional explosions were reported at about 3:30 a.m.

"From the explosions that just occurred — a ballistic missile attack is ongoing. Missiles, one after another, air defense is active," Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said at 2:41 a.m., confirming reports of ballistic missiles.

Explosions and the sound of air defense systems operating were earlier reported by a journalist on the ground at about 1 a.m. local time.

Earlier in the night, at around 11:44 p.m. local time, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Telegram that Ukrainian air defense forces were actively countering the incoming drones.

Russia launched 465 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy drones, as well as 32 cruise and ballistic missiles, against Ukraine overnight, the Air Force reported.

Ukrainian air defenses reportedly intercepted 405 Russian drones and 15 missiles. Russia deployed the Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles, the Iskander-K cruise missiles, the Kh-59/69 aerial missiles, and the hypersonic Kinzhal missiles in the attack.

Moscow was "targeting everything that sustains normal life, everything the Russians want to deprive us of," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Eight out of the 12 people injured in the capital have been hospitalized, Klitschko reported.

"In Kyiv, due to strikes on critical infrastructure, there are power outages," he added as Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital's critical infrastructure.

A Kyiv Independent journalist in the city was left without water and power amid the strikes on the capital.

The part of the city east of the Dnipro River was left without electricity, and there are issues with Kyiv's water supply, Klitschko reported at 3:34 a.m.

Local authorities also reported disruptions to public transportation, including the metro, due to the outages.

In the Pecherskyi district, emergency services extinguished a fire in a burning residential building caused by falling drone debris, Klitschko said, adding that several floors had caught fire before the blaze was brought under control.

RUSSIA CAN'T WIN AND THEY KNOW IT!

ON TO VICTORY!

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