The war between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for nearly a month, and from the outbreak on February 24 to the present, the military confrontation and political games between the two sides have not stopped. And behind this war, Russia has been carrying out precision strikes on Ukraine's power facilities, causing a power crisis in Ukraine. Since the bombing of the Crimean bridge on October 8, the Russian army has launched continuous precision strikes on Ukrainian power facilities since October 10. Over time, the number of damaged power facilities in Ukraine has increased and has reached 50%. On November 23, the Russian army once again hit Ukraine's power facilities on a large scale, and the number of people without power on the Ukrainian side exceeded 12 million.
This power crisis has had a huge impact on the functioning of society and people's lives in Ukraine: electricity involves all aspects of production and lifeA glimpse of people's lives may give us a glimpse of the real life of Ukrainian citizens: rescue and self-help in panic.
The main reason for the Russian retreat has been more than two months since it was under-prepared, and the strategic adjustment made in accordance with the operational principle of losing territory and retaining people has changed its retreat from being caught off guard to retreating in force to retreating on its own initiative: shrinking the front, reducing battle losses, and strengthening defense are its goals. Judging from the process, Surovikin's retreat is nearing the end, and the Russian army will not carry out a large-scale retreat on its own initiative. Reason:
1.Passive retreat: The Ukrainian army blitzed Kharkov, the Russian army was empty, caught off guard, lost people, and retreated in stride. So in Izyum, the Russian army discarded a lot of equipment.
2.Retreat: The Ukrainian army stormed Redman. The Russian army was defeated and withdrew again. No reinforcements were ushered in during the battle and had to be withdrawn, and unlike Kharkov, the Russian army resisted.
3.Active retreat: The Russian side evacuated civilians, evacuated ** institutions, and evacuated troops on the right bank of the Dnieper. About 30,000 troops and 5,000 pieces of equipment were withdrawn in front of the Ukrainian army. The division was deployed on the left bank of the Dnieper, as well as in the Zaporozhye direction. Russia took the initiative to shrink its front and abandon its undefendable backwater, with the aim of stabilizing its position and not retreating.
4.The bottom line of retreat: Crimea, a place that is difficult for the Russian side to give up. Historically and strategically, Crimea is a core interest of Russia. So the Crimean land bridge: the right bank of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and the coast of the Assyrian Sea, Russia will not give up and will not be able to give up. Therefore, the current front in Unan should be Russia's last position. In the Zaporozhye direction, in the Donetsk direction, across the Dnieper River in Kherson, Russia will not withdraw again.
Bombing, unlike anything else.
On October 10, Russia changed its tactics and began a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine. This round of missile strikes is unlike any other.
1.Targets of the bombardment: Russian missiles hit targets that had not been attacked before: Ukrainian command structures, such as the attack on the building of the Security Service of Ukraine on October 10;Ukrainian communication nodes, such as the Ukrainian Network Information Center in Odessa, were bombed;Ukraine's power system: Ukraine's thermal power stations, hydroelectric power stations, substations have been hit like never before, and the ultra-high voltage substation that supplies 750 kV to Kyiv has also ......been destroyedImmediately after that, the Russian side attacked Ukraine's oil warehouses and gas storage facilities. All of the above targets were not touched before the bombing of the Crimean bridge.
2.Time of bombing: On the day of the attack, the Ukrainian side said that Russia had sent **5-600 million US dollars of missiles, and on October 13, a Ukrainian side** said: "The Russian attack will soon stop due to the exhaustion of missiles." "But immediately after the Russian army's air raids, the low-cost geranium two, a swarm attack, from the point of view of cost performance, Ukraine cannot completely intercept it. Ukraine believes that Russia is running out of Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles with cheap suicide drones. A suicide drone of less than $40,000 will be able to fight against an air defense system interceptor missile that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars each, and this battle will not be fought. And the air strikes have continued, and on November 15, the Russian army launched the largest bombardment of Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict.
3.The result of the bombing: continuous bombing, which destroyed 40% of Ukraine's energy and power systems, which directly affected the heating system, water supply system, production system, road traffic system of Ukrainian cities. Leaving tens of millions of people without electricity and heating, Ukraine** said on November 17 that energy shortages and instability would have fatal consequences, claiming that the system and road transport system could be stopped.