After a first day of massive bombardments with high-precision missiles and Geran-2 kamikaze drones, the Russian army continued on 11 October to destroy Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure.
On 10 October 2022, in response to the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge two days earlier, the Russian army heavily bombed Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure.
Despite what the Western "elites" and journalists may say, with only 19 civilian deaths for several hundred missiles and drones fired, and targets not only hit but severely damaged, the Russian army has demonstrated that not only is it not short of missiles (contrary to what the Western TV pundits and Zelensky's advisers tell us), but that they are indeed highly accurate, and that they were not deliberately targeting civilians.
If the Russian army had used inaccurate missiles or deliberately targeted civilians, these strikes would have caused hundreds if not thousands of casualties. To see this, one only has to look at the death toll from Ukrainian shelling of residential areas in Donetsk with shells (not missiles, which do not have the same destructive power).
The 22 September bombardment of Donetsk's central market by the Ukrainian army alone resulted in six civilian deaths, a third of the number of victims caused by hundreds of Russian army rockets in Ukraine on 10 October 2022. And contrary to what the Ukrainian propaganda or that of the New York Times says, the number of victims is not linked to the poor quality of the missiles, which were not destructive enough.
Several thermal power plants were put out of action, and several cities including Zhitomir, Soumy, Kharkov, Khmelnitski, Poltava, Ternopol, Lutsk and Rovno were left without electricity.
Not bad for missiles and drones supposedly made with electronic chips recovered "from dishwashers and refrigerators" stolen in Ukraine according to Ms Von Der Leyen. A little more and she will tell us that the Russian army catapulted refrigerators and dishwashers into Ukraine and that household appliances should be considered as weapons of mass destruction.... Let's get back to the serious stuff.
Although the strikes of 10 October 2022 against Ukraine were very effective, it seems that they had not finished destroying all the targets aimed at by the Russian army. As a result, on 11 October 2022, the Russian army began to strike again at several energy, railway and military infrastructures in Ukraine.
This time the Russian army strikes targeted Kiev, Krivoy Rog, Lvov, Krementchug, Pavlograd, Rovno, Vinnitsa, Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Ivano-Frankovsk regions. Two power plants were affected in Vinnitsa region (Ladyjinskaya power plant) and Lvov region, as well as Pavlograd railway station, Chepetovka railway junction and a repair shop in the same locality in Khmelnitski region.
As a result of these new strikes by the Russian army, Ukraine is left with a large deficit of electricity, which is intermittently cut off in Kiev and the Kiev region. In Lvov, there is almost no light anywhere, and mobile communications are disrupted. A situation that is likely to persist in view of the extent of the destruction.
The Chepetovka repair factory, which serviced and produced Ukrainian and NATO military equipment, was destroyed. The strikes on the Chepetovka and Pavlograd railway junctions will also have an impact on Ukrainian military logistics, since the former is the route through which much of the NATO-supplied arms to Ukraine are delivered by train, and the latter is the route through which Ukrainian military equipment and reinforcements are sent to the Donbass front. Moreover, the strike in Pavlograd, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, damaged a fuel depot and destroyed a train carrying new equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces.
As for other military targets, the positions of the Ukrainian army's 11th anti-aircraft missile regiment were seriously damaged by Russian missiles. And five weapons depots were also destroyed, including a Ukrainian Armed Forces "Primorye" cluster near Nikolayev.
Important infrastructure was also hit in the regions of Ivano-Frankovsk and Dnipropetrovsk, and in the cities of Odessa and Zaporozhye.
It now remains to be seen whether this type of strike will continue regularly over time, or whether it was just a warning that will be repeated if Ukraine fails to get the message (which seems to be the case).