“This is nothing new. The Russians and Ukrainians have been going after each other’s infrastructure for a long time. Just sayin’.”
Up until the last year or so it was mostly one-sided with the Russians hitting Ukraine and Ukraine being told not to hit back. That changed in the last year and now the Ukrainians are hitting things deep inside Russia and well away from the front.
Like you said, this is war.
You're nuts if you don't know it's the Russians holding back. They could easily takeout the entire electric grid in Ukraine. And, they should if Ukraine keeps launching attacks on Russia territory.
It doesn't matter how many Ukrainians die, how much land Ukraine loses or if it ends up with no electricity at all, fools like you want this failed proxy war to keep going until Ukraine is completely destroyed.
There is talk that the primary damage being done is to frequency management. The plants cannot maintain 50 or 60 Hz. As for importing, those towers won’t require 1000 lbs of explosives. Small drones can probably destroy the cabling