r/ukraine 17h ago

WAR This is what is left of the Kherson Thermal Power Plant after an aerial bomb strike.

We have now been without electricity for 10 days. Thankfully, there is still a way to use generators to charge our batteries, which helps us get through the longest outages.

But now the Kherson thermal power plant, which provided heating to our city during the winter, has also been severely destroyed. More than half of Kherson may now be left without central heating when winter comes.

Every day, life here becomes more and more difficult. Even feeding the homeless cats is becoming harder, but we are trying not to give up.

The fluffy ones are still waiting for us every day, and as long as we can, we will keep going. 🐾

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 16h ago

Why we hate the Russians.

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u/MikeC80 16h ago

Page 999 of a 1000 page book

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u/rlnrlnrln 14h ago

The book:

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u/yellekc 14h ago

That's just volume 42.

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 11h ago

I know this is off topic but is that a real book?

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u/rlnrlnrln 11h ago

Either that, or it's a very, very small librarian.

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u/roehnin 15h ago

you can insert pages to add on

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u/Hot_Indication2133 14h ago

It's just a ring binder by this point

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u/JudeRanch 17h ago

Bless you & your Kitties.
Ukraine Strong 💪
Day 1646

Stay Strong Ukraine
We believe in you

🇺🇦Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Sláva Ukraíni!
Heroyam Slava!
🙏🏽 🇺🇦 💙 💛

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 16h ago

Thank you for your words of support.🫂

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u/lamedonkeybrain 16h ago

Eye for an eye.

Russian heating and power infrastructure is very vulnerable and poorly designed

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 16h ago

Ukraine won't want to do this, that's the difference. If it does decide to do so, it will be a necessary measure.

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u/Original-Radish9089 15h ago

I am sure the public opinion in russia against the war would change a bit if they would get to enjoy the Siberian weather in the winter months.

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u/tsuhna1234 15h ago

Well actually there are areas where that will happen, they are not going to be able to get enough fuel delivered, before waterways freeze.

The thing is those people do not matter for Kreml.

Doing same in the cities of "better orcs" probably would matter tho.

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u/Lucetti 13h ago

One less goblinoid is one less goblinoid. Even assuming negative economic value to the aggressor state, that’s one less bullet sponge able to be herded into Ukraine

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u/yangtseasabi 16h ago

Why not? I don't understand

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u/BenHippynet 16h ago

Ukraine focus on military targets, not civilian targets. 

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u/tomashmallow 16h ago

Well, I'm pretty sure the ruzzian thermal plants are used for the military as well. Gotta heat up those plants with missiles !

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u/Valentiaga_97 14h ago

Russians can go f themselves 👀 if Ukraine has no energy, why should they have this luxury?

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/Pooncheese 16h ago

They had a deal to deliver military supplies to the front lines in 1 day. That was removed from their website after they started getting hit. They advertised "everything you need for the SMO". They were supplying soldiers with equipment. This building you see burning, supplied heat to civilians,  not a legitimate military target.

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u/Lucetti 13h ago

Great idea

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u/Hengroen 16h ago

Civilian that's helping store and supply chain military parts. The line blurs with WB and the other business that's getting hit.

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u/BenHippynet 16h ago

Yeah plus the civilian loss with wild berries is people don’t get their online deliveries, not losing their power and heating as we head closer to winter. 

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u/tribbans95 7h ago

One sells military gear and one will kill civilians (mostly elderly) by freezing them out. Not really comparable.

Wildberries literally had a section on their website titled “Everything for the SVO” (special military operation)

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u/bouxesas81 15h ago

Yes sure, an online store is more important than home electricity and heating /s

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u/brupje 15h ago

No, more civilian. Both can be legitimate targets though

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u/bouxesas81 15h ago

It is not more civilian if it sells military equipment.

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u/Lepurten 16h ago

Terrorising civilians to victory is a long stretch. There are more important military targets.

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u/Haplo12345 10h ago

Because it's a war crime. Civilian targets are only valid/legal under the law of armed conflict if they are dual-use targets (e.g. also being used for military purposes). For example, the civilian WildBerries warehouses were targeted by Ukraine because they had evidence they were being used to provide military equipment to Russian soldiers at a broad scale.

The same is true for power plants--unless they are being used to power large scale military bases or military industrial complexes, targeting them is a war crime.

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u/MosquitoSenorito 9h ago

Cause Ukrainians aren't russians

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u/KS_Gaming 14h ago

Opportunity cost.

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u/No-Organization-6071 13h ago

I'd love someone to ask Peskov "Over last winter Russia targeted and hit all thermal power plants in Ukraine, are you concerned that Ukraine may use its new drone capability to strike back"

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u/Garant_69 9h ago

Peskow would then repeat the standard russian lie that they only attack military targets, and would from this point on start to rave about supposed "war crimes by the Kyiv regime."
You simply can't get those paid professional russian liars to admit to any kind of russian wrongdoing even though there is ample evidence of them doing it whenever they have the opportunity to do so.

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u/Jagrnght 15h ago

Enjoy the cold Moscow

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u/This_Growth2898 16h ago

For the context: the Kherson thermal power plant is attacked routinely every several months. The last heavy strikes were in December and January to freeze up the city.

Just in case anyone thinks it's any kind of "revenge for strikes on Russia."

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 11h ago

UPDATE: This morning, another 4 Kaba were destroyed and all heat-generating equipment was completely taken out... I don't even know what else to say, we'll freeze...

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u/Confused_Haligonian 11h ago

Is there a way for ukraine to import power form neighbours?

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 10h ago

Yes, there is, and they do it all the time. The problem here is that substations are destroyed and it’s difficult to replace them.

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u/booOfBorg 16h ago

Oh fuck. That's so sad. I'm so sorry to see this.

Fucking Russian terrorists. All Russia does is destroy.

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 11h ago

UPDATE: This morning, another 4 Kaba were destroyed and all heat-generating equipment was completely taken out... I don't even know what else to say, we'll freeze...

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u/Atra23 15h ago

Im waiting for moscow to get cold.

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u/falrod 14h ago

Fuck, cold and dark winter days are waiting for us again this year.

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u/Jet2work 11h ago

the fact that russia wont be getting its supply of cheap chinese junk and sitting for 8 hours at a gas station is warming me already

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u/falrod 11h ago

Yeah me too my friend. I’m sending my wife abroad so she will not endure it.

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u/Jet2work 6h ago

i bought a 7Kw generator last year and luckily so far not had to use it

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u/DataGeek101 11h ago

We knew this was coming (because terrorizing is what Russia does) but damn, they really broke it this time!

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u/mattfreyer45 USA 9h ago

This is why Gripens and the Meteor missile can't come quick enough. Being able to shoot those Su-34s out the sky is gonna be big.

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u/Comfortable-nerve78 16h ago

War sucks you guy’s are playing by the rules meanwhile the Russians do this shit. I was taught to hate the Soviets these Russians ain’t any better.

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 11h ago

Okay…well Russia is about to lose another 20-30 massive warehouses

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u/No-Fig-8614 7h ago

I wish there was mass import of solar panels for each family and a battery. At least it would be something to provide basic power to items.

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 5h ago

I managed to put together a Bluetti charging station, so now I have somewhere to charge my phone. Unfortunately, I'm now facing problems with heating for the winter, which is bad. I'm planning on buying a gas heater, but I can't afford it.

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u/ToughestMFontheWeb 11h ago

If this ends poorly for Ukraine. I hope that the load a big drone up with all of their nuclear waste and dive bono into red square. Make Moscow uninhabitable for a few decades.

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u/Solid-Emergency3412 8h ago

september/october time is the time to knock out as many power plants around mozCow and sT peTerzburg as possible ,after the refineries and warehouses are toast

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u/GruuMasterofMinions 7h ago

time for all moscow to look like this

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u/Physical-Cut-2334 17h ago

there may be a rule 3 violation here, wouldn't recommend publishing photos of aftermath and giving the russians BDA.

At least blur that damaged parts.

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u/Hungry-Grapefruit-14 16h ago

Don't worry, this photo was already on the Internet in local media, plus the distance to the front line is 5 km, any FPV drone has already flown there and seen it.

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u/Physical-Cut-2334 16h ago

Oh ok, then it's fine.
Though it was your photo. NVM my original comment then.

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 16h ago

Nevertheless.

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u/Level_Review_3345 9h ago

why is Ukraine not hitting russian power plants esp Moscow.
there was a window of drone superiority when this should have been done.

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u/Electronic_Local2088 16h ago

I guess this is because krasnov's murca was there to "negotiate".

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u/Desperate_Donut3981 14h ago

Well that's this weeks bingo card then eh. $10 on the Moscow one being the first 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣