Moscow is planning to strike substations connected to Ukraine’s three active nuclear plants in western and southern Ukraine to completely disconnect Ukrainians from heat and power, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) warned on Jan. 17.
Ukrainians across the country are already grappling with limited power and heating as Russia decimates Ukraine’s energy facilities. But disconnecting its nuclear power plants would take the crisis one step further — Ukrainians would be fully cut off from electricity and heating in subzero temperatures.
Russia’s strategy is “to force Ukraine to accept unacceptable capitulation demands to end the war,” HUR said. Already, the agency says Russia has conducted reconnaissance of ten critical energy substations in nine regions of Ukraine.
The recent mass attacks on energy facilities have prompted intervention from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which will send a team to assess 10 substations critical to nuclear safety, although it’s not clear when.
This is pure evil.
An act of such scale and inhumanity should unite others to take out the perpetrator with great haste, while sending in all available resources to stabilize the situation.
Should.
This is Russias last play, their army is useless, their infrastructer is in a state of disrepair and their economy is on the brink of distruction. Putin knows this invasion is unsustainable so this is the only way he can get his way. Fuck putin, stay strong Ukraine, you give in now and the past 4 years will have been for nothing
