Thread by @rybar_en

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Rybar's team and RT published a breakdown of critically vulnerable points in Ukraine's energy infrastructure. The main point was the Russian strikes aren't likely to seriously affect the Ukrainian energy system's functioning at this point.

(FWD from Amerikansky Nomer)

Apparently, the West also understands this - so far such a forceful action on the part of Russia has not caused any shock in the West.

First of all, it took Joe Biden a very long time to make a statement. Initially it seemed that Washington was preparing some kind of extraordinary speech; however, it turned out to be rather tedious and quite standard.

Secondly, there was a reaction from the American analytical community. Experts described the night's rocket attacks as "Putin's brutal but somewhat predictable response to the shelling of the Crimean bridge," and also admitted that the strikes were less threatening and risky

than the West had expected. At the same time, everyone is dreaming again of a nuclear strike. Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center: "That doesn't mean that Putin won't use nuclear weapons. But he would lose a lot if he did."

And to make it so Ukraine doesn't actually suffer serious damage, there are rumors that Joe Biden will announce air defense supplies for Kyiv at the NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels later this week. So the clock is ticking.