Missiles, exploding drones again hit Ukraine's power, water

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By HANNA ARHIROVA

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Airstrikes cut power and water supplies in a repeatedly bombed Ukrainian city and pounded critical energy facilities elsewhere on Tuesday, part of what Ukraine’s president denounced as a quickening Russian campaign to drive Ukrainians into the cold and dark and making peace talks impossible.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said nearly one-third of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed in the past week, “causing massive blackouts across the country.”

“No space left for negotiations with Putin’s regime,” he tweeted.

The campaign of strikes using missiles, drones and other weaponry has opened a new phase in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nearly eight-month invasion, as winter begins to bite. Even far from battlefields, water, heating and power are no longer certainties, with daily strikes reaching far into the country to slam utilities, sometimes faster than they can be repaired.



Smoke rises after Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)


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[Lovie777]

1. And the Ukrainians are repairing them .......

Hopefully no deaths or injuries.

Ukrainians are still moving toward in taking back their lands. Russians are still dying for Putin's ego.

I think at this point in time, Putin wants to win no matter what the cost is, even if it destroys his "fatherland".

[Botany]

2. "No space left for negotiations with Putin's regime," he tweeted.

The Ukrainian forces and all the others fighting with them are grinding the Russians into dirt as they push them
out of the country and that will include Crimea too. The only thing Putin has left is drones, air strikes, and missiles
most of which are launched from outside of Ukrainian territory.

[dalton99a]

3. It is time to make Russia suffer.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-business-kharkiv-0ecf19f07e3d71d9dc860e923291a01d

Winter is coming: Ukrainians dig in for brutal season ahead
By JUSTIN SPIKE

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Artem and his grandmother have been living without gas, water or electricity for around three weeks, ever since Russian missile strikes cut off the utilities in their town in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region. For them and the few other residents that remain in the complex in Kivsharivka, bundling up at night and cooking outdoors is the only way to survive.

“It’s cold and there are bombings,” Artem said Sunday as he helped his grandmother with the cooking. “It’s really cold. I’m sleeping in my clothes in our apartment.”

Adding to the foreboding about the coming winter, Russian strikes on Monday and Tuesday in Kyiv, the capital, and several other Ukrainian cities by drones and missiles targeted power plants. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a tweet Tuesday that over the past week Russian attacks have knocked out 30% of his country’s power plants causing “massive blackouts across the country.”

As the freeze sets in, those who haven’t fled from the heavy fighting, regular shelling and months of Russian occupation in eastern Ukraine are desperately trying to figure out how to dig in for the cold months.

[Alien Life Form]

4. Why dont we give weapons to Ukraine to allow them to hit Russian power and water?

How can they win the war if they are only allowed to play defense?

[Bayard]

6. I've been asking that for awhile

Who do they have to get permission from to make it a fair fight?

[womanofthehills]

14. Biden warns of nuclear armagedfon

“Biden warns risk of nuclear 'Armageddon' is highest since Cuban Missile Crisis

President Joe Biden said Thursday the risk of nuclear "Armageddon" is the highest it has been for 60 years after Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed his threats as his military retreats in Ukraine.

In remarks at a reception for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said it was the first time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that there has been a "direct threat" of nuclear weapons’ being used, "if, in fact, things continue down the path they are going.”

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” he said, offering his bluntest comments about the use of nuclear weapons since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-warns-risk-nuclear-armageddon-highest-cuban-missile-crisis-rcna51146

[speak easy]

5. Where is all the air defense?

Oh that's right, Germany and the U.S. were dragging their feet. Not now though. Not when a drone could hit a NATO member embassy. Ukraine lost two S-300s yesterday. Things will get worse before they get better.

[PortTack]

7. Here's another donation site, goes directly to Ukraine without actblue costs. Ukraine24.org

Slava Ukraine

[Omaha Steve]

8. The ONLY ActBlue cost is the credit card charge amount for using the card

IF your paying by card, it is the same at both places.

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[PortTack]

9. Got it. Just a quick FYI: Ukraine24.org has raised well over 7 mil since their inception about

6 mos. ago. It’s another really good option to give. Also, with this site you can direct where you want your donation to go, the war effort, refugees, rebuilding,

[Omaha Steve]

10. Sounds good to me

[Irish_Dem]

11. Putin's goal w/ the relentless bombing campaign is to demoralize and force surrender.

Same thing Hitler did to London.

But it didn't work for Hitler. It just made the Brits fight back harder.

[msongs]

12. Iran launches attacks on Ukraine by proxy nt

[Marthe48]

13. putin's russia will pound Ukraine into rubble

as they did Chechnya in 2014. The people are battered, but never defeated.
Raising a flag over barren stone is a hollow victory.

I hope Presiden Zelinsky one day stands in red square being honored as the true leader and hero that he is. And he gets to piss on putin's grave.