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of civilian infrastructure, energy infrastructure is obviously designed to try and freeze the ukrainians into submission. i don t think it ll be successful, in fact i know it won t be successful because they ve shown a huge amount of resilience and we ll continue to support them through these difficult months. ukrainian engineers have been working around the clock to try to restore electricity in the wake of the last wave of russian attacks on the country s power infrastructure a week ago, which have left millions around the country with intermittent power in freezing conditions. ukraine s national grid operator today said the system is still producing a shortfall of around 30% of the power the country needs. here s nato secretary general on what the allilance is doing to help ukraine with its power crisis. nato allies are providing unprecedented support. and today allies made additional pledges to nato s comprehensive assistance package for ukraine. this will fund urgent non lethal su
secretary. also at the meeting is the uk foreign secretary james cleverly. this was his message. we have seen vladimir putin attempting to weaponise energy supplies right from the very start of this conflict and this targeting of civilian infrastructure, energy infrastructure is obviously designed to try and freeze the ukrainians into submission. i don t think it ll be successful, in fact i know it won t be successful because they ve shown a huge amount of resilience and we ll continue to support them through these difficult months. while nato ministers meet here in bucharest. in ukraine, engineers are trying to restore electricity damaged in the wave of russian attacks last week. millions around the country have intermittent power and conditions are freezing. today ukraine s national grid operator said the system is producing at 70% capacity. here s nato s secretary general on the power crisis.
from each side. now, the russians say they re going methodically. they re going slowly. the ukrainians say that they re fighting tooth and nail and they re inflicting heavy casualties. i m sure the truth of the matter lies somewhere between the two. but i think the russians, their suggestion that they re taking their time doesn t really hold that much water. i think they have in the past tried to do things as quickly as they can, but that attempt, as they tried here in the capital failed. and i think now probably the reason they re going slowly is because they re being held up. and when they try and push in quickly, they re suffering very heavy losses. their default kind of modus operandi, the way they like to operate is with heavy artillery, basically pound the defensive positions of the ukrainians into submission. but that takes time. they re in basements, they re in bunkers, and it s difficult to know that you ve cleared an area if the people are underground taking cover. so i think
capital in terms of air bombardment, do they have the defense necessary to thwart an invasion? we ll see. the short answer is, no. they ll fight, they ll fight hard, they ll fight capably, but they won t be able to overcome the overwhelming force and might of the russian military: so, again, it s going to to be a messy fight. there ll be a lot of people s lives lost. but it may be prolonged, it may bog down. it was the thing about warfare is there s nothing that can be anticipated, and what you can count on are unanticipated turns of events. dade david now, stalin back 90 years ago starved the ukrainians into submission. there were about 4 million people killed between 1932-33 by a long period of starvation that was brought on by the dictator, by stalin when it was the soviet