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Russian Saturday attack

 Since October Russia has been effectively cutting Ukraine off from energy. Their latest target is the biggest Ukraine port city-Odesa. In the early hours of Saturday, Russian strikes hit key energy transmissions lines, affecting the whole Odesa region. Moscow did not use any munitions during this attack, but simply drones, that fly into their target, were enough to destroy energy facilities. Now, there is no electricity in almost all the districts and communities of the region, which before Russia's 24 February invasion had a population of more than 1 million. In my opinion, this attack as well as the whole war now is looking extremely exhausting to Ukraine. Russian's moves are thoughtful and well-prepared and that keeps me worried for the fate of Ukraine. I personally can't imagine myself living without electricity, because it became our almost basic need, and it's hard to function without it for a longer period of time, and suddenly most of Ukraine has no other option than just struggle. I know that those are conditions of a war, but I still feel very sympathetic to Ukrainians and I hope it all gets at least a little better, because the situation is not looking like it's going to end soon.


Link: 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/10/russian-drone-attacks-target-power-network-odesa-ukraine

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  1. englishdiary15 December 2022 at 06:48

    What's probably even worse than blackouts is the lack of heating in cities, which is also dependent on electicity to some extent. Imagine no heating in those big blocks of flats with temperatures like now.

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