by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The damage assessments of yesterday’s November 28 electric war strikes against targets across the Ukraine spell the countrywide collapse of electricity supply before January 20, when the new Trump Administration will take office. By then, the Russian General Staff will have deprived Keith Kellogg, the retired US Army general newly appointed […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Friday, November 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On Sunday afternoon the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that a massive strike of air and sea-launched missiles and drones have struck and destroyed parts of the Ukrainian electricity grid in the western regions of the country, as well as in Odessa and Nikolaev in the southeast.   The Mukachevo interconnector station […]

Filed under: DwB, Ukraine by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This week’s announcements of emergency electricity rationing and scheduled power supply cuts in the farwestern Ukrainian regions of Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathia indicate that pinpoint drone targeting by the Russian General Staff  is a new stage in the electric war since President Vladimir Putin put on pause long-range missile attacks on […]

Filed under: Ukraine by Editor - Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A two-month delay in Russian missile strikes against Ukrainian electricity infrastructure west of the Dnieper River and  secret talks on end-of-war terms by the Kremlin go-between Vladimir Medinsky (lead image, right) produced two signals from Kiev on Monday – one an offer by Vladimir Zelensky to reciprocate with a limit on […]

Filed under: DwB by Editor - Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with As the Ukraine’s peak summer electricity season approaches, the list of the Russian General Staff’s Electric War targets is shrinking. This is because almost all the Ukrainian electricity generating plants have been stopped. What remains for destruction are the connecting lines and distribution grids for the Ukraine’s imported electricity from Poland […]

Filed under: Ukraine by Editor - Sunday, June 9th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Go West, young man – that American slogan of the mid-19th century  is not an idea the Ukrainian men of Odessa,  Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, Poltava and Sumy can contemplate today as long as the danger of press ganging into the army in Kiev and Lvov is a higher risk to their lives than […]

Filed under: Ukraine by Editor - Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The electric war, which in its first phase commenced in September 2022,  has now entered its second and final phase – final, that is, for the Ukraine. This is strategic; war has never been fought like this in Europe. The US and NATO general staffs and politicians have been taken by complete […]

Filed under: DwB, Ukraine by Editor - Monday, April 1st, 2024
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the coming winter phase of the Russian offensive in the Ukraine, the electric war will be run quite differently from the way the first electric war was directed last winter. The impact on the Ukrainian grid and on the country’s and military’s capacities to cope will be  more destructive […]

Filed under: Ukraine by Editor - Saturday, November 4th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Until capitulation in war, the winning side is the one that learns fastest. The loser is the slowpoke. In Washington, the turnover of staff inside President Biden’s White House has been so rapid, the learning process for the new staff has been almost as retarded as the incapacity to learn has […]

Filed under: Poland, Ukraine, US-Russia by Editor - Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In war, force and money do the talking on the ground. Not talk in the air. On the electric battlefield in the Ukraine, the targeting of Russian attacks is being calculated to cut the command and control links between the Galician capitals of Lvov and Kiev west of the Dnieper River […]

Filed under: DwB, Poland by Editor - Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
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