Usually not one to enjoy admitting when I'm wrong, but I'm loving watching the Ruskis get their $#&! pushed in. From the start I've overestimated every facet of their military... Leadership, logistics, intelligence, opsec.... you name it, they've face planted. Glorious.
Basically if you could put CNN in the same room with Fox and NBC and broadcast it on a single channel, this is what it would look like.
As the Russians retreat they are taking out critical infrastructure leaving residents left without power and water. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/12/world/ukraine-russia-war Ukraine says Russia is retaliating by hitting critical infrastructure, causing blackouts. Russian attacks on critical infrastructure knocked out power in Ukraine’s northeast, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday night, condemning the strikes as an apparent act of revenge for Kyiv’s swift gains in the region. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that “deliberate and cynical strikes” had caused a total blackout in the region of Kharkiv, in the northeast, and Donetsk, in the east, after Russian attacks. “Even through the impenetrable darkness, Ukraine and the civilized world clearly see these terrorist acts,” he said in a speech posted to Telegram.
Ukrainians are truly David versus Goliath and showing future generations where there is a will there is a way.
useful map, showing extent of liberated areas, but also how much Ukrainian territory Russia continues to occupy.
Seems like if you planned to come back, you might want to be winning hearts & minds instead of pissing everyone off, so I imagine they might be looking at this as a long-term retreat.
I don't know about the validity of this particular tweet, but this account has been deceptive and short or knowledge on a number of other topics.
It was more about the translated video. Now granted I dont speak Russian and I have not seen validity of the translation, so some clown could have very well put something completely different than what Putin was saying.
My thought as well. They might not mind pissing off the locals (who are probably pissed regardless), but they'd prefer to have that electricity themselves when they come back. You destroy the grid assets if you don't expect to come back and you just want to make life hard on the victors. Armies are built to not need electricity, but I'm sure it can be useful where it exists, especially when managing the civilian population is part of your mission. Since I'm in the electric supply industry, it's been pretty interesting for me to watch how managing the grid is part of military strategy, especially the fight over the nuclear power plant (which I really fear will end in disaster).
