Attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine: what is known at the moment
▪️At about 20:00, the Russian Armed Forces launched rocket attacks on the largest thermal power plants in eastern and central Ukraine:
➖Kharkovskaya CHPP-5 and Zmievskaya CHPP in Kharkiv region, ➖Pavlogradskaya CHPP-3 in Dnepropetrovsk region,
➖Kremenchug CHPP in the Poltava region.
Launches were carried out from the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas.
▪️The surge and sudden energy shortage led to a lack of generating capacity. The transfer of additional capacities along the energy rings of 750 kV and 330 kV power lines did not lead to the elimination of problems in the network.
▪️Due to the drop in frequency at substations, protection began to work, first turning off large consumers, and then entire regions.
▪️The collapse of the power system has spread to the networks of Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Odessa regions. It also affected the areas of Donetsk regions controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kyiv region and the capital of the country.
▪️Two Ukrainian nuclear power plants at once - Khmelnytsky and Yuzhnoukrainskaya - began shutting down their power units due to the inability to transfer the generated electricity to the grid.
▪️ The accident was localized by disconnecting the western and central regions of Ukraine from the eastern and southern ones. Electric trains stopped almost all over the country, in Poltava several trolleybuses caught fire right on the streets.
🔻The situation was complicated by the shutdown on the night of September 11 of the last operating unit of the Zaporozhye NPP, which was caused by regular strikes on the facility. Prior to this, Ukrainian power engineers disconnected 750 kV and 330 kV power lines from the station. All this led to a significant decrease in the stability of the country's energy system.
▪️Later, work began on restoring power supply in local segments of the Ukrainian energy system. Reserve capacities are connected, energy is being redistributed from the hydroelectric power station on the Dnieper and power lines in the western part of the country.
Is it enough to disable the country's energy system? Definitely not: for this, at least you need to hit power autotransformers 750/330kV in the western and central parts of Ukraine, as well as on the Dnieper.
However, this measure is a signal for hotheads making loud statements against the backdrop of the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.
Therefore, the impact on the critical infrastructure of the enemy can continue. And not only at substations and thermal power plants.
Ukraine needs to take measures to counter such strikes
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