Public sentiment is deeply polarized regarding the Ukraine-Russia conflict, with strong support for Ukraine juxtaposed against skepticism about military effectiveness and frustration towards both the Ukrainian and Russian leadership. Many express a desire for increased military support, yet there's significant concern over humanitarian impacts and the perceived inertia from Western countries. The mixed emotions reflect both resilience and fatigue, driving a narrative of urgent need for decisive action and a pathway to peace.

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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.

chrisdh79

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RUSSIA CAN'T WIN AND THEY KNOW IT!

ON TO VICTORY!

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gamesta2

Let's hope Ukraine also starts striking Moscow's heat and electricity infrastructure. This needs to go both ways.

Zipfo99

Hopefully climate change will do them a solid.

GunhouseTV

Puzzled_Worth_4287

But how about Russia? Most of their energy devices have been attacked by Ukraine, they have a hard winter too.

RDimos

jadsf5

All this didn't have to happen... but they "chose" a policy that has resulted in 2 million lives lost, the economy will probably never recover, the country is destroyed, so this comes to me like crocodile tears

Key-Experience-6393

Daniel_Fortesque

Time to call Krasnov for another two week ultimatum and some help.

506c616e7473

&gt; Ukrainian long-range drone strikes have knocked out around 13 percent of the Russia’s oil refining capacity _since the beginning of August_, the Moscow Times reports.

Huu lordy, you guys been _at it_, well done! I'd loooove to see the total number too, hope it's something big!

TheTealMafia

The only way this war ends - increase the price of Russian aggression to unsustainable levels.

Arms factories next, once the new long range weapons are ready.

diamanthaende

Fair play. But I would like to see more than 13% of break down.

EduardBon

Not sure you can escalate an attack when you're the victim of an invasion...

Realistic_Let3239

Keep up the great work - the world thanks you!!!!

curious-wolf-99

The Ukrainians were fairly clever about their attacks. Destroying storage is one thing and an easier target but tanks aren't hard to rebuild. Hit some of the refining equipment, and they have problems. There are bits of the refinery that run under high temperature and pressure and are precision built like the catalytic crackers. These would need a replacement and in good times, that would take months. Under current circumstances, maybe a year or two. Note that the cracker isn't vital but without it, the refinery would work at maybe 25% of its normal output of lighter hydrocarbons such as gasoline. Refineries generally have two of these but they are quite recognisable, so easily identified for targeting by drones.

That is as long as Trump doesn't try to help out by easing sanctions on petrochemical equipment.

hughk

The article references an interesting way to think of Russia's problem : they have to spread their air defences over 11 time zones.

They have zero chance of that working.

HighDeltaVee

Good things can happen, even if it’s sometimes.

Front-Blood-1158

ObiePNW

From a three day special military operation to a country that has to import gas and oil in three days

[deleted]

Fight for your (our) freedom, Ukraine. Keep fighting the orcs.

Free_Crazy_5209

Fuck that warmongering piece of shit.

I hope Ukraine owns half of Russia by the time this is over

watermelonspanker

mudokin

CalvesBrahTheHandsom

Shut down their airports too and this might be over far far quicker

RottenPingu1

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzpx5udhkk7lf1.jpeg

madmaxGMR

Low-Living-7993

Putin isn't. The russian people are, but they'll suffer as long as they go with it...

reddit_tard

fferreira007

Putin should go play catch with the little flying planes. The experience could blow his mind... and hopefully a few other pieces this way and that.

Russians will use donkeys. nobody needs fuel.

Triana177

Wouldn't be surprised by USA supplying Russia fuel.

What a fucking insane sentence.

Biliunas

CuriousGam

See, at least the Romanians kept the Russophile out of office, otherwise..

ProConqueror

It feels like, that attacking a foreign country, without a casus belli, might be a bad idea. Idk, I'm not an expert.

Fine-Independence976

The Russian war effort will eventually stall due to many reasons people have listed here. The truth is that in the Modern world a sustained war is bad for any large developed nation. Ramzi Youseff and Osama Bin Laden said they would destroy America, and they did. Not by destroying buildings but by keeping the United States locked into a state of conflict so pervasive, that when we couldn’t figure out who else to fight after The Taliban, Al-Queda, Iraq, Isis…. That we turned on eachother.
Putin is not a rational man. He won’t let Russia fail. It’s not something he will let happen while he is in charge. When the time comes he will warn NATO that he is going to use a single Tactical Nuke on Ukraine. And when all they do is flinch a bit he will do it. I bet he told Trump that when they had their tea party in Alaska, and I bet that’s why everyone looked so bad leaving the meeting. 
I hope people find a better way to be dumbasses eventually.

fosgobbit

Aren't they like selling petrol ? Fuel crisis isn't a good news when you are at war and your economy rely on petrol and gas income

akluin

jackun

_room305

That's because Putin is the worst leader Russia has ever had

Les-50

Putin also run out of ammunition several times by now too.

7896k5ew

ColdServedDish

Have they tried not pissing off Ukraine and having their refineries destroyed cause of their actions?

HonorboundUlfsark

Ladies and gentlemen, we are entering the "find out" phase of the bullying.

JohnFighterman

Can somebody explain me how Russia is facing a fuel crisis while Trump decide to impose 50% tarif on India cause they buy fuel from Russia?

Certainly people who don't have fuel shouldn't be selling it...

Except if the money crisis in Russia is worse than the Fuel crisis?

Fuzzy974

I want to believe but I’m afraid at this point I’m not so sure.

Clamps55555

How long-term is this?
Last year, there was something similar, but the Kremlin took 3 to 9 months to repair it.

Any-Original-6113

Ukraine and Russia a while ago [agreed to halt strikes on energy infrastructure of each other](https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-agree-to-ban-strikes-on-energy-infrastructure-following-talks-in-riyadh/). Seems like the agreement has been breached and we're up to rising energy prices this winter.

tranbun

Im going to say it because we all been hearing about for the last 2-3 years. russias going broke russia this russian that. But damn can we just get some honesty already.

suckmyBANHOLE

In fact, this is a bit like the Russo-Japanese War, paving the way for possible future wars. For example, if a war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, there may be tens of millions of drones conducting unlimited bombing, causing global trade to be paralyzed.

The fact is that every major country does not have very effective defenses against such drone attacks, so the main industries of every country are actually within the range of possible attacks.

CaptainGustav

Wish Ukraine all the strength and a lot of good weapons to eliminate all the oil infrastructure. Ground this shithole country!

Silver-Forever9085

Damned terrorists. May they rot in hell soon.


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