“The damage is critical,” said Sergii Koretskii Facebook, the president of the state -owned Naphtoogaz
Igor Gielow
SAO PAULO, SP (Folhapress)-Vladimir Putin’s forces have performed the biggest attack on Ukraine’s gas production infrastructure since Russia invaded its neighbor three years, seven months and ten days told on Friday (3).
In the reverse hand, maintaining his asymmetrical campaign against the Russian oil system, Kiev had an important refinery in the distant Orenburg region near the Kazakhstan border, 1,400 km away from the Ukranian territory.
Asymmetry occurs in Russian numerical superiority. They were launched against the Poltava (Center) and Kharkiv (North) regions 381 drones and 35 missiles against gas distribution centers and the country’s main producing unit.
“The damage is critical,” said Sergii Koretskii Facebook, the president of state -owned Energy Naphtogaz. There are no reports of victims. Russia said it attacked the centers that feed the Ukrainian military industry.
Far from the capital, Kiev, the regions are less protected by air defenses. Indeed, the aeronautics said it was deducted 303 drones and 17 missiles, a rate lower than usual when the target is the center of power. There were attacks on 6 of the 24 Ukrainian regions, with a blecate reaching tchernihiv (north).
In addition, an assessment by Ukrainian military personnel and passed on to the British newspaper Financial Times shows that the Russians have improved the aim with the introduction of guiding mechanisms that allow some missile maneuvers such as the Kinjal hypersonic aerobalistic and the Iskander-M ballistic.
According to the report, the interceptions of these weapons by US Patriot systems, concentrated around Kiev, fell from 37% to 6% this year.
The focus on the Ukrainian energy system emulates the Russian effort of previous years. For the government of Volodimir Zelenski, the motivation is not military, but let the country go cold in the winter that approaches in the northern hemisphere, as the warming depends on gas and electricity.
This year, domestic production of Ukrainian gas fell 40% due to war, according to Naphtogaz. The country has increased imports and is trying to fill its deposits by aiming the winter, but bombings make movement difficult.
Already the attack on Russia involved fewer resources, in the case of long distance drones. According to Moscow, 20 throughout the morning were slaughtered – the country never discloses how many were launched, as the Urcanians do.
Since August, Kiev has specifically targeted large Russian refineries, causing a side effect to rationing gasoline in some regions of the country. According to a survey by the British network BBC, this year have already been hit with some successful degree 21 of the 38 units of its type in Russia.
The loss of production so far reaches 5% for gasoline and diesel on occasion, depending on the damage done. There are images on social networks showing lines in places in distant places of the country, such as Khabarovsk, in the Far East.
The United States, which maintain a fickle policy about war under Donald Trump, argue to send to Kiev Cruzeiro Tomahawk missiles, accuracy weapons with a range of 2,500 km, which can reach targets throughout European Russia – including the capital, Moscow.
On Thursday (2), Putin warned that such a supply would change the level of American involvement in war, as missiles need US land personnel to be operated, as well as the calibration of their guiding systems, mixing GPS, ground reading and inertial mode.
