Russian bloggers have a name for it. De-Energization. Another drone & missile attack on Ukrainian power facilities

 via CBS News

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country, Ukraine’s armed forces said.

Air raid warnings rang out across the nation, with 10 Ukrainian regions coming under fire, the country’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said.

Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukraine in recent days, launching several missile barrages on the capital, Kyiv, and hitting energy infrastructure across the country in apparent retaliation for recent Ukrainian aerial attacks on the Russian border region of Belgorod. Such sporadic attacks, however, have been common throughout the war.

Large-scale blackouts have already affected Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv, where 700,000 people lost power after the city’s thermal power plant was hit in a drone and missile attack on March 22.

In the winter of 2022-23, Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing frequent blackouts. Many in Ukraine and the West expected that Russia might repeat that strategy this winter, but Russia instead initially focused its strikes on Ukraine’s defense industries.

Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, said Friday’s attack deliberately targeted thermal and hydroelectric power plants across central and western regions.

In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine’s Kaniv and Dniester hydroelectric power stations had come under attack and accused Moscow of risking an ecological disaster similar to the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in June 2023.

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This is why I call this a weird war.

Everyone is talking about the barbarity of the Russian attack and I won't disagree with them.

I WILL HOWEVER POINT OUT that if the US had launched a similar attack you would have seen a dedicated campaign to knock out anything that generated even a SMALL amount of power.

Turning out the enemy's light is US warfighting 101.

What is that?  You say its a terror attack to knock out power?  NO IT IS ALLOWED BY THE RULES OF WAR!  Energy is dual use and by turning off the power you degrade command and control of enemy forces.

Its tough on a civilian population but it will shorten the war.

So yeah.  This should have been expected and that it didn't happen sooner means either the Russians have been fighting one handed OR they had another motivation that I don't understand.