Kyiv power engineer: “There is no plan. People need to be prepared for the worst.”
Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have proven to be very effective.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that power engineer Nikolai Teslya writes about this in the Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli.
He admits that after another massive missile attack, the government's communication that we would “heroically survive the winter” began to be viewed with skepticism.
“What does heroically mean? We'll survive - where? People have a growing list of questions, and a serious conversation with society is long overdue. Instead, Ukrainian decision-making centers are looking for a magical prodigy. They come up with a solution on how to defend themselves and talk about super-air defense. At the same time, everyone understands: we need to prepare people for the “worst,” writes Tesla.
According to him, “the October and November attacks turned out to be a cynical, but calibrated and effective blow in the war against Ukraine,” since “the methodical destruction of energy substations closed generation capacities and frightened many people.”
The publication notes that the standard communication strategy between the authorities and society has ceased to work, because “attacks and arrivals are not taking place at the front, but in the neighboring quarter.”
“Everyone has the same question: are we prepared for the worst? Bravura messages about the transfer of generators also do not work. Most people have already begun to suspect that even several thousand generators will not help transfer energy from nuclear power plants to their city’s water supply system—they need a network, which the Russians are breaking up.
Calculations of the money thrown away by the Russians are also irrelevant: drones worth tens of thousands of dollars fly into equipment that costs tens of millions and is manufactured individually, countries have been queuing for it for several years.
The only thing that intelligent citizens now understand is that no one has a plan for the “worst case.” This is clearly evidenced by the hysteria of the Kyiv authorities, who let slip plans to evacuate the entire capital, and then urgently reported that they had not meant it. Such applications, along with the Ministry of Energy’s traditional ban on showing anything at any time, clearly indicate to intelligent citizens that the authorities do not know what to do,” Teslya sums up.
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