“This state of emergency will remain in effect until the situation improves,”
Heh
Attacking civilian infrastructure?
If the power station powers military equipment, it can be a valid target.
Unfortunately, yes.
The commander of the unmanned forces apologized for inconvenience in an online post, but still, one is not supposed to attack the power grid without a good military reason (e.g. causing temporary distraction in an easy to repair way, disconnecting a particular military object or production facility).
I don’t know the details. Typically, if one flies into a transformer, that is temporary disablement. For comparison, if one flies into a turbine hall, that shows that one intends to take the grid down and keep it down.
However, I would not worry much, since Crimea is home to a lot of Ukrainians. They won’t break the infrastructure badly because their own citizens need it.
Zelensky meanwhile says that he has signed the orders to conduct a 40 day “influence campaign” to influence Russia to negotiate for peace. Speculating a bit, causing severe shortages, an outflow of people and the failure of this tourism season in Crimea (the least defensible part of occupied lands, since it has such a feeble connection to Russia) could be part of this.
Russia regularly strikes schools and apartment buildings with the intention of terrorizing and killing civilians to lower morale across the country
And we criticize Ukraine for striking a power plant that is also used by the Russian military?