'While Ukrainians’ morale has withstood thus far, days or even months of intermittent internet, phones, water, heating, and light could chip away at their resilience, resolution, and fighting spirit. Or so Putin hopes,' writes Suriya Jayanti
After what is now almost three months of energy infrastructure strikes, the consequences are devastating. Every single Ukrainian thermal and also hydro power plant has been damaged, although not all to the point of full inoperability. Almost every electrical substation has been hit, mostly with Iranian kamikaze drones that are almost impossible to defend against. More thanof the electrical grid has been damaged.
Candles light a restaurant during a power cut in downtown Kyiv on December 6, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - With temperatures dipping below zero, repeated Russian attacks have left Ukraine's energy grid teetering on the brink of collapse and have disrupted power and water supplies to millions over recent weeks.Ukraine’s electricity generation capacity is down 50% just as it struggles to power and heat itself during winter.
can only meet 10% of the country’s needs, leaving a gap big enough to ensure at least a few million Ukrainians are in the dark at any given moment.—70 teams, over 1,000 specialists—are genuinely valiant in their efforts to repair the damage and restore electricity, heat, and sometimes water to besieged citizens. But it’s whack-a-mole. As they fix one transmission line or substation, Russia hits another, or sometimes even the one they just restored.
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