When we get a power cut, it can be 6 days before it gets fixed. If it is during deep winter, that means it is difficult to stay warm. But we know the fault will be fixed soon.
Living in Ukraine this harsh winter, the energy infrastructure constantly bombarded by missiles and drones, the people know Putin has a death wish for every citizen who defies him by staying alive.
I am reproducing a comment from Phillip P.O’Brien, on Substack:
The Week Trump Helped Putin Commit Two War Crimes
The Russians changed tactics this week. What they have been doing in the months before this is building up for regular large missile/drone attacks every 10 days or so, and interspersing those with mostly UAV-only raids. This one large raid tactic, was helped a great deal by US slow-walking air defense to Ukraine and has helped Russia do significant damage to Ukraine’s power generation and heating infrastructure.
However, these Russian attacks have not been capable of driving Ukraine out of the war. And actually in the coming weeks, time will turn against this campaign. Though it probably does not seem like it in Ukraine, winter will end and the temperatures will rise. Aware of the fact that Spring is coming, the Russians clearly decided to change tactics to try and devastate Ukrainian civilian life now. Instead of building up for one large attack every few days, they would take a little longer and accumulate the mass of systems needed to launch two large attacks in a short space of time—attacks which we saw this week.
It was to be a hammer blow to try and freeze the Ukrainians into submission.
In short succession over the last few days the Russians launched mass raids on a range of heating/power targets across Ukraine. These were very heavy attacks that also featured extensive use of ballistic missiles, a newer wrinkle which poses real challenges to Ukrainian air defense.
First was the attack on the evening of Feb 2-3, which was the largest Russian bombardment of this winter. The Russians launched 450 UAVs (mostly Garan/Shaheds) and a sobering 71 missiles of different types. 38 missiles and 412 drones were shot down, but that means at least 27 missiles and 31 drones made it through. Here is a map of the attack.
Then the Russians did it again only a few days later. Here is a map of the attack on the evening of February 6-7, which was almost as large as the earlier one. According to the Ukrainians 408 drones and 39 missiles were launched of which 382 drones and 24 missiles were shot down.
So this week in these two attacks, almost 1000 UAVs and 110 different missiles, many of them ballistic, were used to bombard Ukraine. Sadly, Ukrainian defenses were stretched and 42 missiles and almost 60 UAVs hit their targets. The results of these attacks were significant. Since the first, Kyiv was limited to 4-6 hours of electricity per day.
Btw, it any major European or US city were hit by 42 missiles and 60 UAVs, its infrastructure would probably not be able to cope. Just a warning.
Kyiv at night during the first attack this week
These combined Russian attacks are easily the most devastating of the war on Ukrainian civilian life. You can see the planning that went into them by looking at both maps. The first attack focusses on the east, particularly Kyiv and towns/cities near the front. Then a few days later, having extended and exhausted Ukrainian air defense, the Russian assaults moved westward.
It was a well-thought out war crime. Power remains out or strictly limited in much of Ukraine and the country remains in the grip of bitter cold. Kyiv, for instance, will get as low as minus 21-degrees Celsius today and tomorrow—and it will not get above freezing (and then only just) until Thursday.
It explains just what was going on while Trump was talking about Putin promising not to attack Ukrainian heat and power generation. Putin was simply massing weapons for the largest double tap attack of the war and Trump was talking about it being some humanitarian gesture.
And Trump lied shamelessly. He repeated the lie on Monday of this week (hours before the first attack) and made it seem like Putin’s humanitarian pause was still in operation. Here is what he said exactly in the White House according to one report.
“I did call up President Putin,” he said, noting that Russia has the “same cold wave” that the US has been recently experiencing but stressed that Ukraine is “much colder than us.”
“They have a tremendous cold wave,” he said, adding that he asked Putin “if you wouldn’t shoot for a period of one week, no missiles going into Kyiv or any other towns, and he’s agreed to do so.”
“It’s something,” he added.
Anyway, it was all part of a lie anyway, as the Russians did smaller attacks the entire time on the Ukrainian power grid. So the President of the USA was an accomplice and propagandist for the Russian dictator as Putin built up the forces needed to launch what could be called the largest Russian war crime so far. Two mass raids, a few days apart, which have been extremely destructive to civilian life in Ukraine; thanks in part to the President of the USA.
TRUMP AND THE EPSTEIN FILES:
How Trump Appears in the Epstein Files
The New York Times found more than 5,300 files with references to Mr. Trump and related terms. They include salacious and unverified claims, as well as documents that had already been made public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/trump-epstein-files.html
Farcical peace talks in Abu Dhabi resolve nothing as Ukraine shivers under Russia’s winter onslaught
Published: February 5, 2026 4.42pm GMTUpdated: February 6, 2026 10.24am GMT
What has been destroyed:
One of the main targets of Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine is the energy infrastructure. The extent of the destruction is enormous. “One year after the start of the war in February 2022, 76 percent of thermal power plants had been destroyed; now the figure is 95 percent,” says Ukrainian scientist Iryna Doronina. “And all the large hydroelectric power plants have also failed.” The breaching of the Kakhovka dam proved to be particularly devastating. The huge outflow of water – the reservoir covered an area 1.5 times bigger than the canton of Zurich – destroyed thousands of homes and left the reservoir a desert.
https://www.miragenews.com/how-ukraine-can-rebuild-its-energy-system-1319469/
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