Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say.
The head of the Zaporizhzhia region military administration, Ivan Fedorov, told Ukrainian television that the power plant can no longer produce electricity.
Traffic around the plant is “completely blocked,” he said, with residents being forced to drive over bridges to get around, he said.
Russia has continued its tactic of striking key energy facilities this week, with the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy warning Sunday of a “significant power shortage” as a knock-on effect of the strikes.
Let’s say, however unlikely, Russia actually gets control of Ukraine. The second phase of repairing and sustaining Ukraine, whilst also constantly dealing with heavy resistance for a generation at least, it is surely not economically viable for Russia and they will continue to struggle keeping up with the world for even longer.
Seriously, what’s the game plan here? It seems like cutting losses now is the only viable option and its quickly disappearing or arguably too late.
There isn’t one.
There probably really has never been one after the initial “three day” special military operation failed - the entire war is a massive exponential sunk-cost fallacy with the need for Russia to win simply because Putin cannot afford to give up or lose after all the losses the war has caused.
Fuck Putin.
