Russia is now waging war on Ukraine’s energy grid. Its task is probably made easier by its infiltration of the key Ukrainian energy installations. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
Regardless of however one judges their motives, they aren’t doing this for financial gain since they could have sought such long ago, but because they’re fatigued with the conflict and want it to end soon.
Zelensky has been fearmongering about Russian-backed protests since mid-November in a desperate attempt to preemptively discredit genuinely grassroots demonstrations ahead of his plans to cling to power after his term expires on 21 May. He accordingly tasked the SBU with snuffing out growing dissent caused by his latest conscription drive and other unpopular policies, yet they were so preoccupied with thwarting this scenario that they didn’t realize that Russian spies infiltrated Ukraine’s energy sector.
The Associated Press included the following tidbit in their article about Russia’s latest energy grid strikes:
“’They did a huge intelligence job,’ (director of the Kiev-based Energy Industry Research Center Alexander) Kharchenko said, pointing to the precise nature of the attacks and the damage done. The Russian military seemed to ‘know everything about the current status of many energy infrastructure objects,’ including their defenses.”
The compromised technicians do specialized work that can’t be easily replaced in a possible purge.
It’s unclear why these employees suddenly decided to collaborate with Russia, but it might possibly be that they hope that optimizing the efficacy of its energy grid strikes can hasten an end to their country’s conflict by pressuring Zelensky to resume peace talks. After all, they had plenty of opportunities to either reach out to Russian intelligence on their own or respond to its agents’ presumable outreaches any time over the past two years, but they only sought to do so now two years into the conflict.
The RAT Finks at BlackRock will repair it at an exorbitant rate?
CCP/PRC will supply the parts and labor for pennies on the dollar?
Medvedev says bonuses for any NATO scalps and not literally on the hairpiece.
Don’t like infiltration then don’t start shelling civilians that you hate for almost 10 years or let outside sources pull off a coup in your “beloved” country.
Are there any there that love the place and people or is it all oligarchs of the kind that Putin kicked out years ago?
How I want AI bot to mess it up with rhetorical questions.