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UKRAINE: Massive Airstrikes Hit Energy Infra; Trump Names Ukraine-Russia Envoy

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Massive Russian airstrikes overnight have knocked out power and utilities in cities across Ukraine. Up to a million people in cities including Lviv, Kherson, Lutsk, and Zhytomyr are without power, while some cities do not have running water after the second large missile and drone attack on key infrastructure targets in under a month. The BBC reports that "Ukrainian officials have been warning for some time that Russia has been stockpiling cruise and ballistic missiles in order to mount coordinated attacks on power infrastructure throughout the winter." 

  • On 27 Nov, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who served as chief of staff on the National Security Council during his first term, to serve as his special envoy on Ukraine and Russia.
  • The Spectator gives a short explanation of the strategy intended to end the war outlined by Kellogg and fellow former NSC member Fred Fleitz in an America First Policy Institute paper: "Step one is forcing Putin to negotiate by saying that, if he does not, Kyiv will be given all the military support it needs. Step two would be to freeze the conflict on existing battle lines. Fighting would stop, but neither Ukraine nor anyone else would have to accept Russia’s rule..."
  • It remains to be seen how effective the first step of the plan will now be, given that Ukraine has been allowed to fire an (albeit limited) number of ATACMS into Russia. 
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Massive Russian airstrikes overnight have knocked out power and utilities in cities across Ukraine. Up to a million people in cities including Lviv, Kherson, Lutsk, and Zhytomyr are without power, while some cities do not have running water after the second large missile and drone attack on key infrastructure targets in under a month. The BBC reports that "Ukrainian officials have been warning for some time that Russia has been stockpiling cruise and ballistic missiles in order to mount coordinated attacks on power infrastructure throughout the winter." 

  • On 27 Nov, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who served as chief of staff on the National Security Council during his first term, to serve as his special envoy on Ukraine and Russia.
  • The Spectator gives a short explanation of the strategy intended to end the war outlined by Kellogg and fellow former NSC member Fred Fleitz in an America First Policy Institute paper: "Step one is forcing Putin to negotiate by saying that, if he does not, Kyiv will be given all the military support it needs. Step two would be to freeze the conflict on existing battle lines. Fighting would stop, but neither Ukraine nor anyone else would have to accept Russia’s rule..."
  • It remains to be seen how effective the first step of the plan will now be, given that Ukraine has been allowed to fire an (albeit limited) number of ATACMS into Russia.