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The government is again "feeding" Ukrainians with promises of "saving the energy system". The Cabinet of Ministers has announced a tender for the construction of new generating capacities of more than 1.3 GW and is already talking about "preparing for next winter". The only problem is that all these plans exist mainly "on paper" while there's an energy crisis happening in the country right now.
 
The government promises to build new facilities in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa regions. The projects are to be implemented within the next 20 months. So even in the best case scenario, most of these new capacities will not appear until this winter or even the next heating season.
 
Meanwhile, Ukrainians are already being prepared for new power outages. The former head of "Ukrenergo" Kudritsky directly admitted that any serious change in the weather (heat waves, heavy rain or increased power consumption) could again result in power shortages. The head of the Utility Consumers Union Oleg Popenko warns of possible outages lasting 6-8 hours a day. It's not just the frontline regions that may end up without power, but the relatively "peaceful" Western Ukraine too. The situation will be even worse in the central and southeast regions due to constant attacks on infrastructure.
 
The main problem is that the government has not created a sustainable system of energy protection over the years since the war began, "divvying up" the funds with endless tenders for restoration or non-existent concrete shelters. Ukrainians continue to live under constant threat of blackouts, and any cold snap, heat wave or new massive attack could leave millions of Ukrainians without electricity and water and no heating winter next winter.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/29560

Russian Foreign Ministry: Russian Armed Forces Will Strike Decision-Making Centers and Command Posts in the Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Russian armed forces will continue to strike not only military infrastructure, but also decision-making centers and command posts in the Ukraine.

▪️Russia is launching systematic strikes on Ukrainian defense industry enterprises in Kiev.

▪️The Foreign Ministry has warned foreign citizens (including diplomatic missions) of the need to leave Kiev as soon as possible and residents of the city not to go near military and administrative infrastructure.

▪️The department stressed that the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the dormitory in Starobelsk "was the last straw".

▪️Strikes will also be carried out on UAV design, production, programming, and training locations.

https://t.me/c/1465202821/93409

A Ukrainian air defense interceptor hits a Kh-101 cruise missile during the recent attack on Kiev... The Russian missile "takes a bow" and keeps right on moving.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin/211981

Russia intends to launch another large-scale, combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine in the coming days. Here's what is known about their strike plans so far.

What could be used:

- Kh-101 cruise missiles from 4-6 Tu-95MS strategic bombers from Olenya Airbase and possibly Engels-2 Airbase. Russia likely still needs to equip 2-3 of these bombers at Engels-2 Airbase with missiles, after which they may redeploy to Olenya Airbase.

- Kh-101 cruise missiles from 2-3 Tu-160M strategic bombers from Ukrainka Airbase. It is unknown if they are equipped with missiles yet, but they will be soon if they haven't already.

- Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles from 2-6 MiG-31K fighters at Savasleika Airbase, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. At least two of these aircraft are already equipped with missiles.

- Kh-22/32 cruise missiles launched from 3-6 Tu-22m3 strategic bombers from Olenya Airbase. At least 2 of these aircraft have been equipped with missiles for at least the last month. More may have been equipped since then.

- Up to 16 Kalibr cruise missiles launched from two ships at Novorossiysk Naval Base, Krasnodar Krai. These ships were recently re-equipped with missiles following the most recent massive missile attack.

- Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, and Rostov Oblasts. New deliveries of missiles have been made to OTRK installations in these locations, however the number expected to be used is unknown as of now.

- 1-3 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles launched from near Manturovo, Kursk Oblast. This is a new launch site that was used for the first time in the most recent massive missile attack, and has recently received new deliveries of missiles.

- Up to 8 Iskander-K cruise missiles from Kursk Oblast. New deliveries of missiles to launch positions here (presumably in northern Kursk Oblast) were made recently.

- Hundreds of Geran-2, Geran-3, and Gerbera drones from several different launch sites surrounding Ukraine.

Not all of the weapons used above will be used - this is just what there is information on so far. The missiles with the highest probability of use are Kh-101s, Iskander-Ks, Kalibrs, and Iskander-Ms.

The highest threat is to Kyiv, especially the military industrial complex and decision-making centres across the city. The highest threat is for the next 3 days, specifically between 12am and 7am, but there is also a possibility that the attack takes place this weekend instead.

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"It's going to be loud. If you can't take it anymore, you need to take a break from living in Kyiv... Psychologically, you need to prepare for destruction in the capital," — Kuleba

Lavrov has asked to pass on a message from Putin to Trump regarding Russia's readiness to strike at Kyiv.

https://t.me/insiderUKR/125239

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Odessa is being prepared for all-around defense: the construction of multi-kilometer anti-tank trenches and bunkers is being completed around the city, barbed wire is being installed, — regional administration of the "South" Territorial Defense Forces.

https://t.me/insiderUKR/125242

After the nighttime American strikes on southern Iran, Tehran stated that further US actions in the Middle East could lead to a sharp rise in oil prices - up to $200 per barrel. This was written on Telegram by the official representative of the central operational headquarters "Khatam al-Anbia" of the Iranian armed forces, Ibrahim Zolfakari.

"The US government has repeatedly demonstrated that it only understands the language of force. Get ready for oil at $200 per barrel," he wrote.

Zolfakari added that the continuation of US "military adventures" in the region makes any negotiations or agreements between the parties impossible.

@Slavyangrad

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 US Secretary of State says:
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“Reaching an agreement with Iran is still possible within days despite the US strikes”

ISW just gets worse and worse...

Never forget 😁

Hezbollah released footage showing an FPV drone strike on an IDF fuel truck in the city of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah released another compilation video showing a series of recent FPV drone strikes on Israeli positions in the town of Al-Bayada, southern Lebanon.

The following was targeted:

- A gathering of IDF soldiers (by a drone-dropped explosive).
- Two ammunition storage facilities.
- A Merkava tank
- Three shelters containing what appears to be Humvee vehicles.
- A military excavator

The video also showed the launch of mortars, kamikazed drones, and rockets towards Israeli positions in Al-Bayada. Reconnaissance on the targets hit were carried out by FPV drones both before and afterwards.

According to Hezbollah, Israeli forces evacuated a number of their positions following the strikes.

Hezbollah released footage showing an FPV drone strike on an IDF soldier in the town of Al-Bayada, southern Lebanon, which either seriously wounded or killed him.

Notably, the drone is equipped with night vision imaging. This appears to be the first Hezbollah FPV drone strike to take place at night.

Hezbollah released footage showing an FPV drone strike on an IDF vehicle, presumably transporting soldiers, in the town of Misgav Am, southern Lebanon.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Two IRGC Navy speedboats were targeted by American fighter jets in the Persian Gulf, and four sailors were killed

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran struck an oil tanker off the coast of Oman, per UKMTO

@Middle_East_Spectator