The one launched during the night by the Russian army would be "the largest attack on Ukrainian energy structures since last year", according to what Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko wrote on social media, as reported by the Kiev media. «The objective is not only to damage – he adds -, but to try again like last year, to cause a collapse of the country's energy system. Energy production plants, transmission and distribution systems were hit and damaged in the eastern, north-eastern and central regions. There are blackouts in several regions. It was a difficult night."
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, is on the verge of a blackout: the external overhead line connecting the plant with the unified energy system of Ukraine has been disconnected. «Such a situation is extremely dangerous and threatens an emergency situation. If the last line of communication with the electricity grid is cut, the plant will find itself in another blackout,” said Petro Kotin, head of Energoatom, the Kiev atomic energy company.
But other bombings hit the Dnipro hydroelectric power station, traffic on the dam's road bridge was blocked: Mariupol mayor's advisor Pyotr Andryushchenko reported, adding that a Russian missile hit a trolleybus full of workers crossing the dam, dozens of people were injured. The head of the Zaporizhzhia police department Ivan Fedorov told national TV that "from 4 in the morning, the Russians struck civilian infrastructure, causing a lot of damage," Ukrainska Pravda reports.
(Unioneonline/ss)
