Ukraine – To Hurt Russia Means Pain for Ukraine
Ukraine is trying to hurt Russia by hitting its refineries. But the attacks fail to have the desired effects on Russia. The Russian response though, in form of de-energization attacks on Ukraine, seriously endanger the state.
Today the Russian Federation continued with the de-energization of Ukraine (machine translation):
As a result of a massive Russian missile attack on the night of April 11 , the Trypillya thermal power plant in the Kiev region was completely destroyed.
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Located in the city of Ukrainka, Trypillia thermal power station was commissioned in 1973 and became the most powerful power plant in the Kiev region. It was also the largest supplier of electricity to the Kiev, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr regions.
Since the Zmiyevskaya TPP in the Kharkiv region was completely destroyed on March 22, and Russian troops occupied the Uglegorsk TPP in the Donetsk region on July 25, 2022, Centrenergo has now lost 100% of its generation.
After the complete destruction of the Trypillya TPP, the network recalls the statement of Centrenergo from August 2023 that the facility is equipped with physical protection “at 100%”.
At the same time, it was reported that 70% of the work at the Zmievskaya TPP was completed. This facility was also destroyed by shelling in March of this year.
DTEK, another power supply company in Ukraine, also reported significant losses:
During the missile attack on early 11 April, Russia attacked two thermal power plants owned by DTEK company (Ukraine’s largest private investor in energy), severely damaging the equipment there.
Source: DTEK press service
Details: “After the attack, the power engineers promptly began to eliminate the consequences and restore the equipment. According to early reports, there were no casualties,” the statement said.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, DTEK’s thermal power plants have been attacked almost 170 times.
In addition to the power supplies Russian attacks also targeted parts of the national electricity distribution network:
Russia has damaged Ukrenergo’s substations and generation facilities in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Kharkiv and Kyiv Oblasts as a result of a massive missile attack on the night of 10-11 April (Ukrenergo is the electricity transmission system operator in Ukraine).
Europe’s biggest underground storage facility for natural gas in western Ukraine was also attacked (machine translation):
On the night of April 11, Russian cruise missiles of various classes and drones attacked two critical energy infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region.
This was announced by the head of the Lviv OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
“This is a gas distribution infrastructure facility in the Stryi district and an electric substation in the Chervonograd district. Fires started. They were quickly extinguished
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