A Russian winter in Kiev? Hard lectures for Putin from Hitler and Napoleon

The current year has been characterised by the Ukrainian military's major advances in the battle, but also by Putin's decision to strike rockets and bombs at civilians across cities throughout the country, whether by direct crackdown on residential buildings, but by the latest, it may be even more brutal in the long-term plan: the destruction of Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

Vladimir Putin knows winter is coming again. Already, about 30 percent of Ukraine's energy system has been damaged or destroyed. Power cuts have begun,
and in some cities there was no electricity or water for more than a week.

Life Under Freeze for Four Months

Putin's strategy aims to give Ukraine a double blow, as Russian attacks on thermal power plants and substations over the past two weeks have forced the government in Kiev to announce the suspension of energy exports.

As Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko stressed: “Exporting electricity from Ukraine helped Europe significantly reduce the consumption of Russian energy sources”. Europe has already begun to doubt whether the impact of the war on energy prices will be worth its support for Ukraine, especially when the cold starts. Putin is trying to freeze Kiev from the outside and the inside. Now it's time to remember what a Ukrainian winter is like: 4 months full of ice, snow and wind.
With Putin's attacks on infrastructure, it's not just the cost of energy, it can be fully terminated. Warm spots can make a difference between life and death - especially for the sick and the elderly - reports abcnews.al.

Will Ukraine have heat this winter?

Ukrainians are already preparing for the worst. Maxim Tymchenko, who runs the largest private energy company in Ukraine, is careful in the assessment he makes: “I don't believe we'll have an Apocalypse. However, until it started, I didn't believe Russia would start a war against us. Everything is possible, but I am confident that we will overcome these challenges”.
For his part, energy expert Victor Kurteyev fears winter for Ukraine will be
Worse than most imagine: because of the bombing, but also because of the lack of technical preparation of many large thermal power plants, as well as lack of sufficient coal reserves.
The energy system is built that way, that in the case of damage to one or two substations, nothing critical will happen. But if consumption exceeds the amount produced, the system will remove consumers from the electricity grid”- explains Kurteyev.

Leningrad's Memories

At this point, it is difficult to be surprised by Putin's level of cynicism and cruelty. We must remember the fact that he was born in the city that is now St. Petersburg. During World War II, the city was called Leningrad, and the site of one of the most brutal sieges that history has seen - nearly 900 days of blockade during the Nazi attack, about 1.5 million dead, 97 percent of which were hungry and cold.

When the Russians protected themselves from invaders, the seasons were both friends and enemies. Snow and frost were two causers of intense Russian suffering during wartime. But they eventually helped to defeat Napoleon in 1812 and Hitler in 1942.

From here comes the term “RussianDiry”, a sentence that does not produce images of Christmas cards and hot spots, but the loss of foreign armies and the desperate state of civilians.
When Russia attacked Ukraine, the world turned upside down. Putin sent an army that was not prepared for war in Ukraine, and much less prepared for winter (remember the statement “usustiv for 3 days”). And now he's trying to compensate for some of the losses by deprived Ukraine of its energy resources.

The genetic memory of war, hunger, and cold is still very strong both in Russia and Ukraine. She's definitely alive at Putin's, and she helps explain why he's spending his fall planting terror among civilians in Ukraine, to be deprived of heat, to steal wheat, and to turn their cities into ruins.

My great - grandmother, whose name I bear, survived two famines and World War II. She died at a very old age, surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great - grandchildren, at ease and in peace. Yet, until her last day of life, before she slept in the evening, she put a loaf of bread under her pillow. There are seasons we never forget. /abcnews. al