"Russian strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of Ukraine’s domestic natural gas production, likely forcing the war-battered country to spend 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on fuel imports to survive the looming winter.
Kyiv told its allies earlier this week that a massive Russian barrage targeting the Kharkiv and Poltava regions on Oct. 3 took out roughly 60% of the country’s gas production, according to people with knowledge of the matter. They requested anonymity because the discussions are private…
If the strikes continue, Ukraine expects it will need to buy roughly 4.4 billion cubic meters of gas by the end of March, at a cost of nearly 2 billion euros, according to people familiar with the details. That’s the equivalent of nearly 20% of Ukraine’s annual consumption."
This war must be end now. What they’re expecting? A sudden shock attack and win this war? People are literally dying for a meaningless war to be a green number on a war bonds of the American warmongers portfolio
They refuse to end the war but they have no plan for winning it. They are just hoping that Russia will somehow collapse for no reason. The US is only dragging this out to inflict more harm on Russia. Ukrainian lives mean nothing to them.
The European political elites are too invested in the conflict, their political futures and the credibility of European institutions is at stake because they bet the house on it, so to speak, and now they are afraid of what their own populations will do if it turns out all the sacrifices they were forced to make were for nothing.
As for the Kiev regime, they are living in a fantasy world where they still hold out for NATO to come in to save them by starting a full scale war with Russia, which will not happen. They are trying to keep morale up with their own pinprick strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, but Russia has massive escalation dominance on this.
Ukraine can do some minor damage that will inconvenience a few Russian cities for about a week. Russia could completely turn off the lights and the heat for Ukraine if they really wanted to. If they fuck around too much they will find out.
