"I will start by adding a couple of words about electricity, once more. In fact, electricity, to avoid this endless weeping about civilians. Electricity is an intelligence service, electricity is communication, electricity is internet and mass media. And this is all that is in fact used by the Ukrainian state and Ukrainian military formations of various kinds as well as hired guns, fighting against the Russian army and in the war with our civilians in the districts which are located in the close vicinity to Ukraine, to the hostilities area.

Therefore, leaving them without electricity is an extremely important military task. To leave without electricity. This will be important. Therefore, if we stop doing this, it will take them a week to repair everything, and everything will be as it was.

Electricity, above all, is electrically driven locomotives that transport arms, munition, that western countries bring there to kill our people. Thus, electricity is important. Electricity, so to say, plays now a role that is difficult to overestimate.

…Threat should be moved in the depth of Ukraine. Threat for the military and political administration of this country should be created. This means that society should be demoralized, and infrastructure availability should be destroyed."