#Ukraine Kryvyi Rih, 40,000 homes are without electricity and 2,500 high-rise buildings are without heat, the city’s Defense Council reported. #Russia struck apartment buildings in Kryvyi Rih with two Iskander missiles. 13 people injured, including boys aged 7 and 16, One man is in extremely serious condition.

Russians routinely use this tactics - hitting civilian buildings - to divert emergency services from rescuing any industrial objects as civilians have absolute priority.

In #Kyiv three people have been killed and six injured in a Russian attack residential and administration buildings. A repeated double-tap strike hit a high-rise building in Kyiv killed one medic was killed, and several medical workers were injured while responding to the scene.

#Lviv was attacked using a 13’000 km/h ballistic missile, possibly “Oreshnik” which targeted gas storage and heating infrastructure. The time of the strike is not accidental as it coincides with frosty weather, matching earlier Russian threats to ‘make Ukrainian towns unsuitable for living’.

*As I wrote over a year ago, Russia’s methods will become much more merciless the more they will sense they’re losing the war, which they’ve lost strategically long ago.

That’s what Russian Empire was always doing - once they make a decision to subjugate someone, they start from persuasion and poorly masked threats and then the only algorithm they know is escalation of violence, at any cost, including for themselves. This sometimes works, especially with weak opponents. But his is not the case this time.

As opposed to past winters however, there’s now a significant difference - Ukraine now has means for retaliatory strikes, whose effects we have already seen in the spike of burning Russian refineries for all the past year and in the recent three days closed sky over Moscow or occasional blackouts in Russian towns.

This winter Russians may actually get the taste of their own medicine they’ve been mercilessly applying to Ukrainian civilians for the last four years.