In addition to what others said, the infrastructure attacks have the secondary goal of depleting Ukrainian SAM stockpiles. Should they ever reach critically low levels, that would invite the VKS to begin bombing ground targets in Ukraine on a massive scale.
The War in the Ukraine
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Why in the world are they not hitting the power generation plants? Are they fighting a war or are they trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
plawolf
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I think it’s lure to tie up Ukraine’s limited and depleting resources.
If the Russians just wiped out all the power plants in one night, it would collapse the grid, then what? The damage would be so extreme it would be impossible to bring it back online with ongoing hostilities so Ukraine no longer need to spread its SAMs and MANPADs thin and around the cities trying to defend its power infrastructure and can again be concentrated at the front to make life harder for Russian aviation.
Notice how Russian aviation looses seem to have basically stopped since they started infrastructure attacks. Before there were semi-regular shoot downs of helicopters and fast jets, but I struggle to remember the last time that happened.
I think that’s the main point and purpose of the infrastructure attacks. Makes it painful enough Ukraine have to defend against them, but not so overpowered as to kill the golden goose tying down all of Ukraine’s AD at the rear.
They did. There's a picture that I saw on Telegram that had a destroyed boiler.
Propelled artilleries are so soft, we see some glancing blow turning into totalled fireballs. Minimum armor requirement could evolve to counter some of these loitering ammunitions in the future but the explosive charge could evolve with less drawback.
Suicide drones like the geran 2 have more range and cost less than a guided artillery round but also cost less than just the fuel for a fighter dropping a bomb. Ukraine war could be the turning point for the evolution of a lot of equipments.
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Wagner has been geolocated to the railway station in Sol, the satellite town of Soledar.
Czech volunteer claims Klishchiivka south of Bakhmut has been captured.
The pincer closes around Bakhmut. Ukraine might have to withdraw from Siversk too, that salient doesn't look too great right now.
Frankly, because they can't. There isn't any great mystery here, the answer to every question of the type "why isn't Russia doing x, y, and z?" is because it can't.
Why isn't Russia destroying the power plants? It can't. Why isn't Russia destroying the bridges? It can't.
If they could, they would.
They already did, though
Confirmation of what's being sent to Ukraine by the brits including AS90 SPG's which are shittier Krab
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Nope... They do not want to. Otherwise they can. Instead of bombing the electric distribution nodes they can easily hit the power generation facilities. Especially coal and gas ones. Nuclear ones are safe because you know.. hydro ones are not that important because they produce only like 5% of Ukraine peace time energy.. So Russia can wipe ~60% production if it wants. The missiles would work on these facilities, too. Still though.. nuclear ones in the western part of the country should sustain critical needs (~10-20%) hence distribution center looks more attractive for Russia.