{"id":9913,"date":"2024-03-01T05:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2024-03-01T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:05:48","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraines-power-grid-at-least-66-times-to-freeze-it-into-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=9913","title":{"rendered":"Russia Attacked Ukraine's Power Grid at Least 66 Times to \u2018Freeze It Into Submission\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Last week marked the second anniversary of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, a conflict that has been marked by multiple reports that Russia<\/a> may have committed war crimes<\/a> by indiscriminately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. During the first winter of the conflict, Russia pursued a strategy that US secretary of state Antony Blinken described as<\/a> trying to \u201cfreeze [Ukraine] into submission\u201d by attacking its power infrastructure, shutting citizens off from heat and electricity.<\/p>\n

Now, using satellite imagery and open source information, a new report<\/a> from the Conflict Observatory, a US-government-backed initiative between Yale University\u2019s Humanitarian Research Lab, the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, PlanetScape AI, and the mapping software Esri, offers a clearer picture of the scale of this strategy. Between October 1, 2022, and April 30, 2023, researchers found more than 200 instances of damage to the country\u2019s power infrastructure, amounting to more than $8 billion in estimated<\/a> destruction. Of the 223 instances identified in the report, researchers were able to confirm 66 of them with high confidence, meaning they were able to cross-reference the damage across multiple trustworthy sources and data points.<\/p>\n

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