As the authors write, the Russian army has shot down most of the strategic stocks of missiles and is now dependent on production capacity. Ukraine, in turn, has brilliant engineers who restore what the world considered unrepairable.
On March 9, Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine for the 15th time, but this did not lead to a critical situation, most of the country quickly returned to service. It is reported by The Economist.
Russian troops attacked Ukrainian critical infrastructure with various missiles worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but power engineers have learned to restore the network faster than the occupiers attack it.
“Ukraine is still winning a historic battle that few expected it to win. Now engineers are repairing the system faster than it can be destroyed. Before the latest attack in Kiev, there were no blackouts for four weeks in a row,” the publication writes.
The use of Kinzhal missiles by the invaders seems to indicate that Moscow is growing desperate. The first massive attacks on infrastructure began in the fall of 2022, and as they repeated, the Ukrainian air defense became more and more adept at repelling attacks. The Russian Armed Forces are trying to destroy Ukrainian air defense systems using drones, fake targets, a network of spies and an A-50 early warning aircraft. Ukraine responds with dummies of launchers and maximum mobility of anti-aircraft missile forces.
The publication also notes that brilliant engineers help the power system. Ukrenergo said that they kept a reserve stock of high-voltage equipment even before the start of a full-scale invasion. Therefore, engineers were able to fix what the world thought was impossible.
“In the electrical world, if something burns at a voltage class of 330,000 volts and higher, you say goodbye to it. We somehow managed to repair them,” said Vladimir Kudrytsky, head of Ukrenergo.
Ultimately, the publication summarizes that the damage to the Ukrainian energy system is estimated at about $ 7 billion, at a separate stage up to 50% of the network was unusable. However, for Russia, the result is that they have shot down most of the strategic stocks of missiles and drones. Now the Kremlin is limited by its production capacity. Ukraine, in turn, is determined to eliminate as many vulnerabilities as possible in the coming years.
Recall that on March 13, DTEK introduced stabilization shutdowns in part of Kyiv due to equipment damage.
On March 10, the media wrote that the Kinzhal missile strike speaks of raising the stakes of the Russian Federation in the war.
