Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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*Ukraine's Zelenskiy Says Power Was Restored to Almost 6 Million People in the Last 24 Hours After Russian Attacks
If they keep expending it's cruise missile inventory to destroy Ukraine's power infrastructure only for Ukraine to repair it a couple of days later it makes you wonder what Russia's next move will be.
 
If they keep expending it's cruise missile inventory to destroy Ukraine's power infrastructure only for Ukraine to repair it a couple of days later it makes you wonder what Russia's next move will be.

Kind of have to wonder what they are hitting?

I would have thought if they were hitting stuff like transformers / substations, that it would take weeks for spare parts / repairs to be available at all.

Kinda feels like theyre hitting pylons or other stuff that is basically just cables so quickly sorted.
 
Kind of have to wonder what they are hitting?

I would have thought if they were hitting stuff like transformers / substations, that it would take weeks for spare parts / repairs to be available at all.

Kinda feels like theyre hitting pylons or other stuff that is basically just cables so quickly sorted.
It might be that if they're hitting soviet era facilities built to provide service as important infrastructure, they were built to be hard to seriously damage without massive firepower. I suspect that Ukraine is also getting an awful lot of spare parts from neighbouring countries that may have quietly ramped up production of spares in the expectation of the Russians doing something similar (or again if it's soviet era design they may have been built with the intention of having a lot of spares* and unlike Russia not had everything in warehouses pilfered).

The Russians seem to have forgotten repeatedly that when Ukraine was rebuilt after WW2, it was built with an intent that it would be hard to take over by force hence the layouts of several of their major cities, and it would have made a lot of sense if that planning and thought went into infrastructure.

So on the one hand it seems the Russians are able to take out heating/electricity to large areas with relatively little damage needed, but that damage also seems to be relatively easily fixed/worked around.


*Unlike the US where apparently a lot of the energy supply companies don't maintain more than a tiny stockpile of spares and it can take weeks to get something made for a single town because it eats into the profits to buy spares in advance.
 
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