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De-electricafaction of Ukraine and Unconditional Surrender…
Dances with Bears ^ | 15 Apr24 | John Helmer

Posted on 04/16/2024 9:36:21 PM PDT by delta7

It was a relatively bright day, November 21, 1920, when Vladimir Lenin, having won the civil war and driven off the American, British, French, Canadian, and Australian invasion forces, announced: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country, since industry cannot be developed without electrification.” Come November 2024 it will be a century and four years to count what Lenin meant, and how Russia is proving itself against everything which the military industries, special forces, weapons, intelligence so-called, operations, and plans of the old invasion coalition, plus Germany, can throw at it. So on November 21, 2024, it will be time to revise Lenin’s maxim to read: Russia is military power plus the de-electrification of the countries which attack it. This is electric war. To make the war aim unambiguously clear, President Vladimir Putin ordered his ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Vasily Nebenzya (lead image, left), to read out a paper at his desk in the UN Security Council chamber on April 11: “very soon, the only topic for international meetings in Ukraine will be the unconditional surrender of the Kiev regime.” Note what the terms “unconditional surrender of the Kiev regime” mean: total military defeat of the Ukrainian, American, British, French, Polish, and other forces on the Ukrainian territory and in the air surrounding; surrender of the municipal administrations of the east-bank cities, including Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, and Odessa; disarmament and demilitarization of the territory between Kiev and the Polish border; exit of every member of the regime, starting with Vladimir Zelensky. This is an ultimatum without alternatives for either Moscow or Kiev. In electric war, are there any alternatives? Nebenzya was making his announcement on the evening of Thursday, April 11, Kiev time. In the time it took for his text to be drafted, edited by the Foreign Ministry, authorized at the Kremlin, and Nebenzya given the go-ahead, it had been only a few hours after the lights of Kiev went out when the Tripolskaya power station was destroyed by a new Russian missile, the X-69 (lead image, right). THE GEOGRAPHY OF TARGETING IN THE ELECTRIC WAR TO DATE

Click to enlarge key and identify locations: https://t.me/rezervsvo/53515 The strike against the Tripolskaya plant was carried out by X-69 missiles fired by Su-34 or Su-35 aircraft flying at a range of up to 400 kilometres from the targets. The aircraft were in Russian airspace, out of range of Ukrainian Patriot and other air defence batteries; the missiles, however, penetrated the air defence screen around Kiev and could not be intercepted. Source: https://t.me/s/Slavyangrad

Source: https://www.ft.com/ Note the single, tiny yellow blip southwest of Donetsk which the Anglo-American mapmaker calls “Ukrainian claimed counteroffensive”.

As of April 10, 2024: Source: https://t.me/sputniklive/78749 Boris Rozhin, whose Colonel Cassad military blog broadly represents General Staff thinking, reports the operational breakthrough demonstrated on April 11, and explains what the maps of current targeting foreshadow for the next round of strikes, and the rounds after that. Rozhin republishes his analysis from RT, the state media organ. “By the evening of April 11, Ukrainian sources reported that air-launched X-69 missiles could be used to hit the Tripolskaya TPP [Thermal Power Plant]. So far, there is no confirmation of this information, but it is worth studying these missiles in more detail. Their range is almost 20 times less than that of the X-101 missiles [equivalent to about 250-500 kilometres], the carriers of which are strategic aircraft of the Aerospace Forces [Tu-95]. In their [X-69] function, they are closer to the foreign [Anglo-French] Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles, which are being attempted for strikes on the Crimean Bridge. The [X-69’s] long range of the 300 km could be enough if the launches of missiles were carried out from the territory of the Bryansk region. If the use of missiles is confirmed in the future, it will mean that no energy facility of the Ukraine on the Dnieper River can work safely, and the strike capabilities of the Aerospace Forces have multiplied.” https://t.me/rt_russian/197065 “Several factors have led to the weakening of the air defence in Ukraine, among which in the first place is the disproportionately high consumption of expensive anti-[aircraft] missiles SAMP-T, and Patriot, as well as daily losses of the foreign air defence systems near the front line. They have been deployed there to prevent Russian aircraft, or at least reduce their activity, but as a consequence, the foreign air defence systems themselves have become the target. And so the circle is closed — medium-range air defence systems cannot be placed on energy facilities now due to the risk of destruction; in the event they are destroyed, the West is in no hurry to replace the launchers and radars. As a result, the key energy facilities remain unprotected; it becomes easier to hit them; and for combined strikes it is no longer necessary to use [Russian] strategic aviation, as it was at the beginning of the SVO or throughout the past year. These circumstances allow the Russian Defense Ministry to reduce the consumption of long-range X-101 missiles, and open up for the General Staff the opportunity to expand the operational horizon in striking, and consider the following global steps, for which long-range means of destruction will be required.” “What goals can be affected after Tripolskaya? If you compare the range of the X-69 missiles with the location of energy facilities on the Dnieper, you can find that due to the shortage of air defences, the presence of cheap cruise missiles, and the large number of combatants from the Russian side, you can organize a massive strike on any target in the central part of Ukraine. It is noteworthy that a significant part of the TPP [thermal power plant], CHP [combined heat and power plant], and HPPs [hydroelectric power plant] on the Dnieper have already been attacked once or several times. But with the use of the X-69, the cost of which is several times less than X-101/X-555, the destruction of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure can reach a fundamentally new level.” “At the same time, the cumulative effect of the blows continues to shake the Ukrainian energy network: the sudden loss of 1.8 GW of generation against the background of the destruction of the Tripolskaya thermal power plant and the general shortage of electricity is a serious and unsolved problem for the foreseeable future. There are not so many partially functioning and as yet not fully destroyed targets; three of them – Zmievskaya, Pridneprovskaya, and Kryvorizhska [Krivoy Rog] are now within reach of the X-69 missiles. For the final destruction of similar facilities in the west of Ukraine (Burshtyn and Dobrotrytskaya TPP) a combined missile strike with the use of long-range X-101 can be carried out.” For a guide to the measurement units of electricity generation and consumption, click to read. MAP OF LOCATIONS OF UKRAINE POWER GENERATING PLANTS BY TYPE

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org “Given the fact that the Thermal Power Plants (TPP), as well as the hydropower plants [HPP], in the Ukraine play an important role in the system and have played the role of the energy balancer, their destruction will lead to the fact that there will be no stable electricity in the electricity system of the eastern and central part of the Ukraine. And without that it is impossible not only for industry to function, but also any normal life, not to mention serious military capabilities.” The Ukraine has published electricity capacity levels before the war reaching their peak on January 25, 2022 — according to Ukrenergo figures, reported by the International Energy Agency (IEA) — of 21.13GW. Ukrainian demand on that day was 21.91GW. Ukrenergo figures were last published for October 27, 2022, when the first phase of the electric war was under way. Generation amounted to 10.71GW; demand to 10.77GW. The estimated capacity which survived at the end of last month, after the electric war had resumed, was estimated in Colonel Cassad reporting on March 30 at 7.8GW. Imports of electricity from the surrounding EU states were peaking last month, on March 26, at 18,649 MW per hour, or about 779.2MW of EU generating capacity; that is just over 10% of domestic generation. The figure is considerable for a single day and expensive, whether Kiev or the Europeans pay. For how long the Ukraine and its EU neighbours can agree to keep up the rate or expand it, is unknown. The line capacity from the EU networks was at 1.7GW by late last year. On paper, that looks like double last month’s peak. Russian attacks on the transmission grid inside Ukraine are likely to reduce that. At best, on paper, the current generating capacity of solar energy plants is about 5GW; wind power, 1.3GW. In fact, according to the last report of the International Energy Agency (IEA) of electricity generation by source, dated February 25, 2022, the solar plants were producing just 0.10GW, wind plants, 0.04GW. The IEA data came from Ukrenergo, the Kiev state utility. Most of the Ukraine’s renewable energy sources are in the southeast of country, behind or just forward of the front.

CHART OF UKRAINE ELECTRICITY GENERATION BY SOURCE TO FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Click to enlarge view. In the IEA’s last public record on February 25, 2022, Ukrainian nuclear plants were producing 8.42GW, coal 3.82GW, hydro 1.28GW, natural gas 0.47GW, solar 0.10GW, and wind 0.04, totaling 14.13GW. For Rozhin’s analysis of how much of this capacity remained before last week’s round of strikes, read this, Rozhin’s estimate of the surviving balance on April 1 was 7.8GW. Based in Paris, the IEA is a propaganda agency for the Kiev regime; Russia is excluded from membership or association. “The IEA is partnering with Ukraine as it bolsters its energy security”, the international agency says on its website at the moment. “The International Energy Agency (IEA), which has deepened its relationship with Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, is stepping up to provide support…The IEA and many of our member countries are working closely with Ukraine to help the country’s energy system recover from Russia’s attacks.” The agency has been concealing the loss of Ukrainian electricity capacity since February 2022. In remarks this month to the Financial Times of Tokyo and London, Ukrainian energy officials claim they have three alternatives – repair the damage, bringing the system back to normal demand levels; add alternative power sources such as imported electricity from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, Romania, and the Baltic states or local renewables, such as solar and wind generation; or defend the electricity system with more Patriot missile systems. “Our goal,” according to Maxim Timchenko, chief executive of DTEK — the dominant Ukrainian power company which is owned by Rinat Akhmetov, “is to restore as much as we can by October… Subject to no further attacks, at least 50 per cent of damaged power units will be reconnected to the grid.” Had it not been for the warm weather, energy imports from the EU, and an increase in renewable energy generation, the current situation would be much worse, Timchenko added. The Russians “are trying to cut off large industrial regions and cities from the power supply,” a spokesman for Ukrenergo, the state-owned grid system operator, told the newspaper. “Smaller substations — managed by Ukrenergo — can be shielded from attacks with protective structures. But it is very difficult, if not impossible to cover the large power plants, which take several months or even years to restore.” In a separate report, the FT claimed after the Tripolskaya attack that the plant had been “protected by air defences.” Whether these were Patriot missiles or something else, the newspaper omitted to acknowledge that they had been defeated.

It then quoted Ilya Yevlash, Ukraine Air Force’s brand-new spokesman (right), as saying that “only the Patriot system was capable of shooting down Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal and Zircon missiles. Obviously we need more, which may help us to protect our critical infrastructure and cities.” The newspaper didn’t ask — Yevlash didn’t say –why the NATO-Ukrainian crews manning the Patriot batteries have been unable to defend either their missile batteries or themselves from hypersonic Kinzhal strikes or the subsonic X-69s. Other Russian military bloggers are reporting new strikes in the west against thermal power plants (TPP) at Dobrotvir, Lvov region, and Burshtyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, as well as the vast underground gas storage in Lvov known as Bilche-Volitzko-Ugerskoye. Alexei Slovtsov has summed up the current situation in the military blog Slavyangrad: “The enemy’s ability to manoeuvre [redistribute and balance] the load has practically disappeared. The base load is carried by the nuclear power plants, and all fluctuations in the schedule can now be covered only by imports from outside. And that is limited by the network bandwidth and power on the other side. The ability to control frequency in the power system will be greatly reduced. The east of Ukraine is now stuck in dependence on several lines of 330 kV and below. There, literally, the last click is needed for everything to go out from the Dnieper to Kharkov. If the 750 kV network is killed, the system will break up into three isolated nodes around the nuclear power plants.” Source: April 12, 01:21. ….much much more.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bloggers; fakenews; killkillkillforpeace; newsfromrussia; russianpropaganda; tldr; ukraine; war; zeepersdevastated; zeepershithardest; zeepersnosuchthing
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What the western MSM will not publish. A very, very detailed article of what is now happening in Ukraine, the war cheerleaders are warned NOT to read this, their heads will explode.

Be sure to see the maps and graphics.

1 posted on 04/16/2024 9:36:21 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

This is completely different than those days. There were no western powers pulling strings and forcing an unwinnable war, a meaningless war.

BTW who blew the Nordstrom pipelines? “Well son of a b...”


2 posted on 04/16/2024 10:14:40 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: delta7

Who could read this vile Russian propaganda about their war of destruction and conquest,
Without realizing the terrible threat of Russia, and the need to stop that murderous regime.


3 posted on 04/16/2024 10:22:28 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

I may go to Ocean City Maryland in coming months to serve as a watcher looking out for Russian invaders approaching the shore. Can you arrange for per diem for this duty?


4 posted on 04/16/2024 10:28:27 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

The boardwalk gets a little crowded, but I recall there are some very nice restaurants over the bridge on the bay side.


5 posted on 04/16/2024 10:36:19 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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I would go to Nantucket if I were looking for Russian assets near the coast.


6 posted on 04/16/2024 11:11:15 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: delta7
Russia is military power plus the de-electrification of the countries which attack it.

LOL, you can't even write in English.

PS: No one attacked Russia. Russia attacked someone else and ended the lives of 500,000 young Russian men for nothing.

7 posted on 04/16/2024 11:20:39 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: delta7

Seems like a smart move on the part of the Russians. War has but one purpose, and that is to win. Some folks understand that. Some don’t.


8 posted on 04/17/2024 12:18:47 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: delta7

Denazification.....


9 posted on 04/17/2024 12:44:33 AM PDT by ganeemead (everything )
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To: House Atreides
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10 posted on 04/17/2024 1:02:55 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: delta7

“ELECTRACAFACTION”????

If you Ruzzian morons are going to propagandize on an English language forum could you at least bother to learn our language?


11 posted on 04/17/2024 3:12:34 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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“ the de-electrification of the countries which attack it.”

Ukraine did not attack Russia.

L


12 posted on 04/17/2024 3:14:14 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Didn’t the Rooskies invade Long Island some decades ago.


13 posted on 04/17/2024 3:14:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Lurker

True that. And the Dims are de-electrifying the U.S. even though we didn’t attack the Dims.


14 posted on 04/17/2024 3:36:01 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Waverunner

One of my favorite films from the sixties. As soon as the Russian/Ukrainian war started, Amazon Prime pulled this film off their streaming schedule.


15 posted on 04/17/2024 4:32:52 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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To: Williams

the terrible threat of Russia, and the need to stop that murderous regime.
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I see that Russian Derangement Syndrome is getting worse, you do realize there is a cure for it. Very simple, turn off the western MSM. If you don’t, you may develop another serious impairment- the Chinese Derangement Syndrome.

All our war cheerleaders are infected with these manufactured diseases.


16 posted on 04/17/2024 7:14:53 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

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17 posted on 04/17/2024 7:18:35 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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To: House Atreides

I wouldn’t go to OCM if you paid me.


18 posted on 04/17/2024 7:19:46 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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To: sauropod

Well, it’s the nearest Atlantic Ocean beach to me so I picked it as a convenient location from which to watch for Russian invaders.


19 posted on 04/17/2024 7:52:56 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: delta7

Really I have to ask what the heck is wrong with you and your sense of reality.

A country is invaded they are being destroyed and slaughtered by an evil dictator, and you sit there accusing people who recognize reality, of some kind of derangement sindrome.

You’re either a fraud or you’re completely disassociated from this world and its reality.

People like you are absolutely worthless because your sense of right and wrong, your recognition of what is happening to people in the real world, is completely lacking.

It’s sickening seeing people like you make accusations against people who know what they’re talking about, and who actually care about the wrong that’s being done in this world.


20 posted on 04/17/2024 8:21:17 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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