Putin using ‘scorched-earth strategy’ to try and ‘wipe’ out Ukraine’s energy facilities – London Business News | London Wallet

Russian forces have changed tactics and they are now trying to destroy Ukraine’s energy sector using “scorched-earth strategy.”

Russia is using the same tactics on the battlefield on civilian areas across Ukraine flying a “huge number of drones” to wipe out Ukrainian “facilities off the face of the earth.”

Vitaliy Zaichenko, Chairman of the Management Board of National Power Company Ukrenergo said, “Russia’s change in tactics toward energy is the same as on the battlefield.

“At first, their goal was to take Kyiv in three days; then it shifted to a scorched-earth strategy. Now they are applying the same approach to energy.

“Every Ukrenergo and regional energy substation is under massive attack, a huge number of drones are flying in, trying to wipe our facilities off the face of the earth.”

At the start of the war in 2022 Russia tried to destroy all of Ukraine’s power system using large-scale missile strikes.

Zaichenko said that the situation has now changed and the attacks are being more targeted since September.

He said, “These attacks were so severe and complex that even now, in some regions – Sumy and Chernihiv – electricity consumption schedules have been introduced. But we are doing everything possible to restore power.”