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Probably not as fast as the Russians could destroy it again. It's a large distributed target with multiple points that can be targeted. Very hard to defend against it seems. I'd imagine that grid damage can be repaired a lot faster than damage to generation infrastructure and depends what in particular was damaged. Great Island was offline earlier this year for 4 months with a turbine fault.

Involve China positively by purchasing batteries and solar recharging kits to flood Ukraine with ???

Probably not sufficient for heating but enough for lighting & communications.

Foil blankets too, will save many lives.

I suspect the goal here is to decimate their energy infrastructure with what little rockets/drones they have left. Once winter rolls in any surplus will be used to terrorise the population like they have done before, in an attempt to make a push back into Ukraine.

On the point of drones targeting infrastructure I wonder if placing trophy systems around key energy plants etc would be an effective measure against the drones. Maybe not since they loiter rather than follow a set trajectory like rockets.

Aviation News..

This is new. This is the first visible operation of RAF Eurofighter Typhoons on CAP in support of their accompanying RC-135 over the Black Sea.

Interestingly, and demonstrates why it's good to compare data, they are visible on FR24 and invisible on ADSB.

The infrastructure attacks will cause huge disruption to Ukraine's military cohesiveness and ability to function. It's a relatively cheap and effective way to corrode the enemy's ability to fight. The optics look horrendous, but they don't matter to Russia at this stage of the conflict (they've never really mattered) and Moscow doesn't have to keep up any pretense with it's original propaganda about liberating Ukraine from Nazi's or whatever nonsense they were previously peddling.

The Ukrainians could use long range HIMARS and other weapons to cause chaos on the Russian side, wrecking logistics, but they can't do that because Putin would use it as a pretext to claim Russia is "under attack" and use nuclear weapons.

No matter what successes the Ukrainians gain, everything is stacked against them.

Russia destroyed 30% of Ukraine's power stations in a week: Zelensky

MO-Kill the power just in time for winter

The net result of this though is to increase the hatred that Ukrainian citizens feel towards their Russian neighbours. It's entirely counter productive.

Logistics heavily.

For example when power is knocked out, it doesn't just impact civilians, it also impacts the Ukrainian military who are relying on that same power infrastructure for everything from communication to storing troop food supplies.

Power outages alone can paralyse an entire country. People can't work, offices go dark, factories halt, farming gets impacted, payment terminals and systems stop working, food starts to rot, supply chains get impacted, etc, etc. It's very serious and will absolutely hamper a national war effort.

Yes it is desperation and barbaric from the Russians, but it's also highly effective in the medium and long term.

We'll likely see an additional rush of anti-missile and anti-drone systems to Ukraine.

Russian government are such cnuts

I'm expecting to see a lot of "disruption" of services in Russia now.

The Shaheds seem to be the 'game-changer' the ukrainian bots have been talking about on twitter for the last few months.

Absolute carnage - the Crimean bridge attack was a step too far.

That look on Putins face is a very rear look . I would not like to be the person /country that caused it . P is a very vindictive little man and has an ability to have a very long strategy .

I think what Ukraine need are those Laser based anti aircraft systems: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-10682693

But better still would be if the US just drop a fuel-air warhead on the factory in Iran.

Hardly surprising people are interested.

A single Shahed 136 is supposed to cost $20k. Ukraine claim that Russia bought 2,400 of them. That's a total cost of $48M which is a fraction of the cost of the damage they've already done.

I was looking for a comparison of what other things would cost. A single F35 fighter plane with all-in costs included is $110M 😮 https://armscontrolcenter.org/f-35-joint-strike-fighter-costs-challenges/

Imagine a world without either Russia or Iran, two perpetual open sewers and thorns in the side of civilised nations. Iran are building a case to take care of two of the worlds terrorist nations in one go.