Ukraine, in Kiev only 1 out of 3 inhabitants has water and heating. The CIA: “Russian attacks will continue”

These are hard days Ukrainewhere the Low temperatures together with the damage done to the energy infrastructure later to bombing Russians are forcing citizens to live in darkness and without heat.

The situation is also critical in the capital Kievwhere, as the mayor said Vitalii Klitschko on Telegram, only a third of people have Water AND heating, and about 40% have Electricity due to damaged power grids after being hit by a series of Russian missile strikes yesterday.

“City services are working to return heat and water to all residents of the capital in the morning. Power engineers are trying to stabilize the power system,” said the mayor. There underground The city has been shut down (although service resumed this morning around 7:30am) and emergency power cuts are taking place in the area.

Attacks on Infrastructure “Will Continue” Says CIA Chief

Furthermore, according to the director of the CIA Bill Burns, Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure will continue, even if the agency expects a “reduced pacefighting during the winter.

For now, he said, the Agency’s number one does not see an immediate way out negotiations to end the conflict: “We don’t believe the Russians at the moment are serious about real negotiation.”

Today’s British Intelligence report

The increase in attacks against infrastructure is also confirmed by British intelligence, which in today’s latest report on the developments in the war in Ukraine, specified that “in recent days, there has been an increase in long-range Russian attacks against critical national infrastructure in Ukraine” . , largely through cruise missiles launched in the air and at sea, but almost certainly also included unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provided by iran and launched from the Krasnodar region of Russia”.

“Previously – added the London Ministry of Defense – UAVs were launched mainly from locations within the Crimea occupied. The launch site change is likely due to Russian concerns about Crimea’s vulnerability and also the fact that Russia’s arms supply is coming in. Astrakhan🇧🇷

Putin met with military leaders

Meanwhile, again yesterday the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that he’s had in the last few days canceled all his public engagements in view of the Christmas holidays, held talks throughout the day in the Kremlin with the responsible for the military campaign in Ukraine: meetings attended by, among others, the Minister of Defence, Serghiei Shoigu and the Chief of Staff, Valeri Gerassimov, and the various military commanders who were heard by the President separately.

“I would like to hear your proposals on actions to be taken in the short and medium term,” Putin said during the meeting, according to an official statement. “On Friday – reads the Kremlin note – the president spent the entire day with the military leaders involved in the special military mission operation”, as the invasion of the neighboring country that began on February 24 is officially called in Russia.