Across six Ukrainian regions, Russian forces have escalated a deliberate campaign against the power infrastructure that sustains civilian life — the heating, water, and electricity that define the boundary between endurance and collapse. Ukrainian energy officials insist the grid remains functional and that total collapse is beyond Russia's reach, yet the distance between a grid that operates and a population that suffers is measured in each strike. This is the oldest logic of siege warfare translated into the modern age: if you cannot break an army, you exhaust the people who sustain it.
Russia and Ukraine escalate energy infrastructure warfare to critical new phase
Attacks on energy infrastructure threaten civilian access to heating, water, and electricity during wartime conditions.