The Zaporizhia NPP alone was close to 6 GW. And the thermal power station nearby that is another 3 GW. So just those two is around 9 GW occupied by Russia.
The War in the Ukraine
- Thread starter SampanViking
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I don't think that you can compare US in ME with Russia in Ukraine.
In ME US was facing guerilla war parties who move their weapons from almost every point of the borders, through all kinds of roads mostly dirty road, even tracks not marked on maps. The weapons involved are small arms that a ducky can carry. The targets are everywhere or nowhere.
Ukraine so far is still fighting a conventional war, transporting heavy weapons through well maintained and well marked road and railways. These can be better targeted. Repairing a road may be easy taking few hours, but a collapsed railway tunnel or bridge would take significant amount of time.
It is more appropriate to compare with US bombing of North Vietnam. In that case, north of 19th parallel line of Vietnam was off limit, so Vietnam could maintain weapon import from China. But in Ukraine, there is no such limit. Unless US can set western Ukraine as off limit to Russian bombing, Russia can do better than US in Vietnam. Of course, Russia doesn't have that much bombs that US had, but that is another question.
Agreed, the plan seems to be to try and win the war by doing as little as possible.
The strikes that occurred today are only good if they are repeated every day for the rest of the war. Otherwise it'll just be a one off until the next successful Ukrainian action.
In the early stages of the war Ukraine was able to hold of the Russian assault at their strongest at great human cost but using mostly infantry portable weapons, if the resurgence in Russian manpower put them in the same position again, I don't see how they can't fallback on the tried and true even without heavy vehicles.
This is where the recent targeting of power, fuel and data comes in. Infantry in the winter is ineffective without having secure sources of warmth from electricity or burning fuel, and won't be able to move around much without fuel, and won't be situationally aware in bad weather without datalinks.
Ukraine isn't tropical Vietnam, you can sleep outside in Vietnam almost year round, you can wear nothing but a shirt, you don't need a fire, you don't even need to bring all that much water as you can drink rainwater. Ukraine is an environment not compatible with unaided human life during the winter.
Intrepid
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At the moment, Ukraine supplies more electricity to other countries than it receives:
Broccoli
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Devastating HIMARS/M270 strike against Russian artillery unit.
191 missiles launched today, according this account
Which are mostly supplied by the nuclear power plants in Western Ukraine which weren't hit in the attack. for obvious reasons. Most of the attacks in this area not involving thermal powerplants was done against substations which retransmit energy to the rest of the country, which also means they can't really receive energy from the rest of europe either.
Pretty sure there old attacks in that video compilation in your second link. Which explains why no date or location are given, lol
One of the replies does give a location for the MSTA strike, which when you look at the map, is currently part of the territory controlled by Ukraine close to Lyman, further indicating these videos are old.
Which are mostly supplied by the nuclear power plants in Western Ukraine which weren't hit in the attack. for obvious reasons. Most of the attacks in this area not involving thermal powerplants was done against substations which retransmit energy to the rest of the country, which also means they can't really receive energy from the rest of europe either.
Pretty sure there old attacks in that video compilation in your second link. Which explains why no date or location are given, lol
One of the replies does give a location for the MSTA strike, which when you look at the map, is currently part of the territory controlled by Ukraine close to Lyman, further indicating these videos are old.
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Did they fought most of the wars with mostly infantry weapons ever? They started with their own soviet era heavy weapons. After loosing them, they were pushed back by Russians, then they are supplied by western heavy weapons enabling them to pushed back Russians. I don't see them ever winning battles without heavy weapons. Let's be realistic, nobody could gain or hold a piece of land without heavy weapons, the Vietnamese (and Chinese in WWII) guerillas couldn't do it, Ukrainian won't do any better.
The strikes have served in reminding Ukraine of it's place, they were getting emboldened due to Putin treating them with kiddie gloves.
The strikes have reminded Ukraine that Russian strikes can reach every inch of Ukraine.
Also it is a good sign when Kadyrov is satisfied.
The strikes have reminded Ukraine that Russian strikes can reach every inch of Ukraine.
Also it is a good sign when Kadyrov is satisfied.