This post is two months old but showed up in my feed a couple of days ago. Apparently Medium thinks it is still relevant. OK.

I think this war is horrible, and particularly horrible is the bombing of power stations. To call them "civilian infrastructure" is only partly true. It is horrible because Ukrainian civilians will be affected greatly by this, particularly as winter arrives.

It is disingenuous at best to ignore that of COURSE the military and particularly military logistics is massively affected by the loss of 40% (so far) of Ukraine's power supplies. Ukraine brings most all supplies to the front line across the entire country by train. Electric trains. They do have reserve diesel trains, but diesel is also used by military vehicles.

The people running the military are also affected by the loss of power. Computers need power. If they don't have grid power, they need diesel generators. Again diesel is used by military vehicles, and also has to be transported.

No doubt Ukraine's stunning victories in September brought this escalation by Russia. But it is sadly just normal war tactics, not Russia facing defeat (yet!).

Russia's missile attacks started in September. Western media nearly daily claims that the attacks can't last, because Russia is nearly out of missiles and/or precision ordinance, etc. Yet two months later the attacks continue.