Yes, the strikes are continuing. Back then, he said something along the lines of, “We’ll rebuild with Europe’s help,” and I said it was all nonsense, basically. In my view, this is exactly where our clear advantage lies.

Later, I also heard a figure — 40 percent — mentioned by one of the officials, but it just flashed by and then was sort of brushed aside. We truly don’t know exactly how much has been taken out of service, but we see it every day — air raid alerts being announced here or there, and new infrastructure sites being knocked out.

The Economist magazine also covers this — written by expert analysts, I should emphasize — and many of them already said back in the spring that this had to be done. That it was necessary to reduce our losses or to decrease the effectiveness of the Ukrainian armed forces’ actions, and so on.

But over there, they chewed it over endlessly — debated and hesitated — and now, finally, they’re doing it. And thank God they are. It’s good that they are, because it really is effective.it saves the lives of soldiers, even Ukrainian ones, but at the same time it reduces the combat readiness of the Ukrainian armed units. But as for systemic destruction, it will undoubtedly yield results. No matter how they boast in Kiev, we would say that now the West will help us. It's all nonsense, my friends. And those who are smarter understand it perfectly. If the strikes continue systematically, it will lead to the fact that, for example, in a month there will be nothing left of Ukraine's energy sector. Winter is ahead. If the same strikes start on the transportation infrastructure, it will lead to the same result, everything will stop in a month and a half, two, three months. And I believe that it would be better for us to do this, rather than conduct another wave of mobilization or something like that. It would be better. And then we will see how it will be delivered, how people will live there, what they will think. I will repeat this cruel thing again, but nevertheless. You know, the Ukrainian population has been misled by the false idea that joining NATO means a better life. And they must understand that joining NATO means a worse life. As soon as they realize this in their heads, and they start thinking about whether they need NATO or not. And you will see, something will start to change, and it will be more important than these endless battles for a forester's hut, this trampling around Avdeevka, Maryinka, and so on, and so on. It will be more important, it will be better. And the Economist magazine indirectly confirms this. Now, the second point, regarding the reconstruction, the Americans, the Japanese, the Europeans say that we will restore. You won't restore anything. In this case, just like I harshly criticize our own nonsense, I also criticize this. It's Western nonsense. Why? I'll explain. Because, in reality, Ukraine's system is huge. Firstly, it is very extensive, secondly, it is complex, and thirdly, yes, it is Soviet. It is absolutely Soviet, it was built in those terrible years of Soviet occupation. It was built exactly then. And I always said, by the way, to the Ukrainians, if you want de-Sovietization, de-communization, de-occupation, then you should get rid of all the industrial potential, because all of Ukraine's industrial potential was built during the times of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. And it was not built by Bandera followers. It was not built by Polish nobles or Lithuanian gentry and so on. It was built by the efforts of the whole country during the years of the Russian Empire and subsequently the Soviet Union. You want complete de-occupation? Then you should go back to the level of a garden. So, Mazanki, this smeared with cow dung, straw roof, yes, and a garden with all those little blue pumpkins and pigs, or rather, with those, with all those little blue pumpkins and pigs, that would be complete de-occupation. I believe that this is what we should aim for, complete de-occupation of Ukraine. Ukraine's energy system is a completely Soviet system, which they actually did not update, they did not invest anything in it for these 30 years, it just worked until it wore out. This is about the wonderful European reformers and so on. It worked until it wore out. It consists of 90% of those units and spare parts that are no longer produced at all. And if they are produced, maybe in Russia. And nowhere else. And nowhere else. Therefore, its destruction will lead to the collapse of the system. And to restore it, it will be necessary to build it completely from scratch. And even to build it from scratch completely, you will need to be sure that what will be built will not be subjected to air strikes. And if it is, then it will be useless to build. Then everything will be reduced to the level of, at best, generators, which will only illuminate one house. And also to the level of, let's say, bourgeois stoves, candles, battery-powered lanterns, and everything else. And then we will see, in my personal opinion, in order to save human lives, this should have been done immediately, right away, and you would see that the situation would be completely different now. I do not exclude that maybe it has already ended completely. I do not exclude it. Seriously, I mean it. Well, okay, it is being done now. It should not be stopped under any circumstances. Move on to the transportation infrastructure. Move on to other objects. And everyone should go to Europe. Everyone should go to their beloved democratic Europe, which is ready to give everything for Ukrainian democracy. Let it give everything. And from a technical point of view, again, yes, the Economist says that they consult, apparently, with energy experts. And it's not difficult to do because it's a common system, it was built together. We know all the schemes, the location of the objects is known to everyone, the technical characteristics are known. And all this, I say, all this Western nonsense about how we will restore, you know, to... Well, I won't quote, but nevertheless. There is no money, but you hold on. It's about something like that. We will definitely restore everything, America, Europe, Japan, we will help you, so to speak, you just hold on there, "khokhly", so to speak, yes, we will restore everything. They won't restore anything. Because if we set ourselves the goal of completely destroying it, then we will have to level the sites and build a completely new, much more expensive system from scratch, which will require huge investments, and we will only allow it to be built if we want to. Iron logic.