Russia’s strategic campaign against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure began to bear fruit. For the first time in a century, Ukraine went a full week in September without producing a single ton of steel. That statement was not issued by a government ministry or a think tank. It came from Oleksandr Vodovis, a representative of Metinvest — one of Ukraine’s largest industrial conglomerates — speaking at a business forum in Kyiv.
The picture Vodovis painted was unambiguous. ‘All plants have been completely destroyed,’ he said. ‘ArcelorMittal, Metinvest, the Petrovsky Plant, and Interpipe. There were multiple strikes on each. Many people were killed, and we are not working.’ Seven blast furnaces have been destroyed in total — five belonging to Metinvest, two to ArcelorMittal, including the confirmed destruction of the DP-6 and DP-5 complexes.
The government’s response, by Vodovis’s own account, has been catastrophically inadequate. The state offered Metinvest between 2 and 5 million hryvnias — roughly $45,000 to $110,000 — in assistance for facilities where a single furnace costs $500 million and its restart requires another $50 million. “We will definitely not be investing in reconstruction right now,” Vodovis said, “because we don’t understand how the situation will develop. The situation in the economy is extraordinary. And extraordinary decisions are needed. One cannot live in an emergency and make decisions as if everything is normal.”
That emergency is about to deepen. Ukraine’s Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed that Ukrainian intelligence has obtained Russian planning documents detailing the next phase of strikes. “Ukraine has received documents containing Russia’s plans for destroying energy infrastructure,” Shmyhal stated. The documents, described as detailed tables with specific munition allocations per target, cover heat and water supply facilities, electricity generation assets, interconnectors linking Ukraine to the European power grid, and transmission infrastructure across the Dnipro River. “Everything has been calculated,” Shmyhal said. “The strike packages — that is what they call them — are laid out for each facility. We understand how they will act.” Separate target lists have been prepared for major cities. Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odessa are named explicitly, along with cities of approximately 500,000 people.
A top executive openly states that his industry no longer exists and that no investment in its recovery is rational. A cabinet minister confirms that Russia has a documented, calculated plan to destroy what remains of the country’s energy system before winter. Both men are saying the same thing in different language: the collapse is not a risk to be managed — it is a timeline to be endured.
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the plan is simple—keep killing russians by any means!
heheheh
why? were does your hate come from… so much bloodlust against a group of people you don’t and care not to know
he’s just a jooish troll who posts via several troll names, but he is really a closet putin supporter and russian supporter, but is paid to post troll posts here.
americunts only capable of hunting 9 yr old boy peniz
and failing on all fronts. hehehehhe
the plan is working well–500,000 orcs slaughtered and counting!
please use a correct email address
in joo americunt anuz much internal jizz muslim crisis
zelensky doesn’t care about ukraine, just the size of his bank account.
no plan, no steel, no power – but they’ve got the eu backing them up, 110%.
lol ! 😆
we’ll see how the eu copes after a hard winter.
and who’s backing up the eu after their nanny left them home alone?
i feel sorry for the ukrainians who were conquered by globalists for intended use against russia. winter will be terrible for those who can not flee. the population did not get to chose neutrality.
are these the same ukrainians who voted in zelenskyy who i recall ran on a peace ticket, or the ones who didn’t? “the government you elect is the government you deserve.” thomas jefferson
maybe no steel but much americunt jizz in ukie anuz
it is the modern version of the allied bombing of the ruhr valley industries in ww2. history repeating itself, and it’ll end with another russian victory over naziism, and it’ll take down the eu with it.
america wants a weak eu.
hence nord stream
america is on a rapid decline, with gas prices continuing to go up, and diesel running short the us bond market will topple the us financial house of cards.
we’ve been living off the fat of the land but soon’ll be down to gristle and bone. hog jowls and collard greens the new american staple.
the us public in general don’t really know what going hungry is like, and their comfortable lives have not yet experienced hardship.
hillbilly plan keep pumping jizz in inferior joo anuz while americunt swallow mulatto hiv jizz
putin better drone that mole.
joo plan always getting anuz pumped w americunt hillbilly jizz