Recently, the citizens of Kiev have been so upset. On a cold day, there was suddenly no electricity at home, and the heating was cut off. Even wrapped in thick down jackets, they rubbed their hands with cold.
This is not a coincidence, the Russian Ministry of National Security said earlier that the Russian army has handled Ukraine's energy and transportation facilities, and in view of this trend, the winter will only be harder, not loose.
Russian troops in the winter.
The Russian military did not do this in the first year, Russia has been fighting for more than three years, every winter, the Russian military is staring at Ukraine's energy facilities, before the winter of 2022 and 2023, this year is even more ambiguous.
Because in the winter people have to rely on electricity to heat and spend the day, at this time the energy is damaged, the greatest impact on Ukraine, now the Russian military is mainly using drones and missiles, exploding power plants, hydropower plants and these places.
Krivologna thermal power plant was beaten twice in one week,It was immediately paralyzed there and couldn't use it. Places such as Kiev and Sumy did not escape. Large-scale power outages became the norm, and some places were stopped for a day without recovery.
Not only energy, but also transportation suffered. Railway locomotives and hubs in Sumy and Kharkiv were constantly bombed, and transporting things became a difficult problem. From this point of view, the Russian army was specifically targeting the "lifeline" of Ukraine.
Energy is the root of people's livelihoods and industry, transportation is the way of transportation of goods, and it is difficult for Ukraine to want to operate normally, let alone to confront the Russian military.
Inside the upper corner.
Energy is depleted, the inside of Ukraine has not stopped, the top ran first, and said that Kiev's power outage, Zelensky directly publicly said that the mayor of Kiev Kryenko "does not work" and did not protect the power facilities.
As a result, Krichenko did not show weakness, saying that Zelensky was deliberately seeking retaliation and engaging in political retaliation, the two people did not deal with it, this contradiction was all on the table, and I wanted the Ukrainian army to focus on the outside, and later discovered that this is not the case at all.
Zelensky also talked with former Ukrainian army commander-in-chief Zaruzhen, and finally Zaruzhen directly resigned, and in six months, five other cabinet officials were kicked away by him because they could not come together with Zelensky.
At this time, it is really not wise to blame each other internally and exclude each other. Electricity repairs need to be coordinated and people's livelihood security needs to be coordinated. Once high-level internal strife occurs, all these things will be delayed. In the end, it will be the common people who suffer.
Military workers are difficult.
The top struggles, the trouble at the bottom is really big, now several states in Ukraine are facing the problem of "electricity outage, heat outage, water outage", the worst side of Kharkov, the winter temperature has fallen to zero to ten degrees, no heating, no water, the people's day can't live.
Some media said that nearly 70% of Ukraine people are worried that they will not be able to survive winter. Hundreds of thousands of people are already thinking of hiding in neighboring countries. People's livelihood is difficult and military production is about to stop.
Modern military industry is completely out of power, Kiev, Kharkov military factories because of lack of electricity, production capacity is lost by more than half, Zelensky is now in trouble, save people to use electricity.
The military factory cannot make ammunition, and the front line will have to cut off supplies. Protect the military factory. The people are too cold to stand, and their support for him will definitely be reduced. What's more, the EU also helped provide some energy components before. This year, the EU's own energy reserves are not enough, and aid has been reduced by nearly half.
Now the power plant that was exploded was difficult to repair, before seven days can repair, now more than twenty days can not do well, this winter is afraid to be more difficult.
Frontline supplies are running out of strength
The troubles of people's livelihood and the military industry have not yet been smoothed out, and there is another big problem with supplies on the front line. 60% of Ukraine's military supplies are transported by railway. Now that railways are constantly being bombed, transportation efficiency has dropped by more than half.
There was a Ukrainian commander beside Sumei, who said that the top of their brigade's ammunition lasted more than ten days, and that the soldiers were also rotated because of the interruption of traffic, and that they were not in place for almost a week, and there was no doubt that the front line had not been supplied, and the combat force had definitely fallen down.
There is not enough ammunition, the soldiers have no weapons in their hands, the soldiers cannot be replaced, and the people on the front line cannot hold on. Recently, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine also said that many more Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered than before. This has a lot to do with the inability to keep up with supplies and low morale.
The Russian military offensive this winter was not only a military strike, but also a seizure of Ukraine's "seven centimeters", energy traffic was interrupted, inside and inside, people's livelihoods, military industry, the front line were all out of trouble.
The next winter will only be colder, the Russian strike will not stop, can Ukraine carry on, but really have to ask a question, if it can not rush to unite and fight for some real help, this day is afraid to be more and more difficult.