Russian War Crimes in Ukraine
"The murder of civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are acts of terror. Ukraine will continue to demand a decisive response from the world to their [Russian] crimes.""We'll renew everything and get through all of this because we are an unbreakable people."Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy"Massive blackout in Moldova after today's Russian attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.""[The Moldovan grid operator was trying to reconnect] more than 50 percent of the country to electricity."Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu
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| People cross a street without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko |
Yet another missile barrage was unleashed by Russia across Ukraine, forcing the shutdown of nuclear power plants, killing civilians in Kyiv, Moscow pursuing is campaign to leave Ukrainian cities powerless in the dark and cold with oncoming winter. The entire capital region of Ukraine with its three million people, deprived of power and of running water, along with many other regions similarly affected.
The maternity ward of a hospital in eastern Ukraine was struck by a Russian rocket, killing a newborn baby, critically injuring a doctor. The hospital in Vilniansk was left a crumpled mass of bricks in the overnight explosion. President Zelenskyy plans to urge an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council with the assurance that Russia would be contrite, apologize, and speedily order its military out of his country.
Across the border in Moldova, officials announced the loss of electricity to over half their country. Marking the first time a neighbouring state reports extensive damage from the war Sussia is waging in Ukraine. The shutdown of reactors was forced by blackouts, at Ukraine's Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant in the south and the Rivne and Khmeinitskyi plants in the west, according to Energoatom, the state-operated nuclear energy agency.
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| Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters
work to extinguish a fire at the scene of a Russian shelling in the town
of Vyshgorod outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine
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Credit: AP |
"Currently, they [power units] work in project mode, without generation into the domestic energy system", explained Energoatom. The largest nuclear complex at Zaporizhzhia close to the front lines in the south is under Russian control and because of nearby shelling was switched off. Across the country, air raid sirens blared in alert mode.
On Wednesday afternoon, explosions reverberated across Kyiv as Russian missiles tore out of the sky while Ukrainian air defence rockets fired to intercept them. "I was sitting in my flat and I heard an explosion. My windows in my hall, kitchen and bedroom were thrown open by the blast wave", said Yuriy Akhymenko, who lives across the road from a building that was hit.
Thermal and hydroelectric power plants were forced to shut down, and as a result, the great majority of electricity consumers in areas of the country under Ukrainian control were cut off. Repairs led to electricity in half of the city of Lviv being restored by evening. According to Moscow, the strategy of depriving Ukraine of electricity, heat and water is to weaken the nation's capacity to continue fighting.
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| A woman with a dog waits for a bus in a street without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko |
Labels: Civil Infrastructure Targets, Electricity, Heat, Massive Bombing, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Water
posted by Pieface @ Friday, November 25, 2022
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