• 11/10/2024

Russians attack thermal power plant in frontline area once again

Pravda Ukraine

One of DTEK’s thermal power plants (TPPs) in the frontline area was once again attacked by Russian troops on 4 January.

Source: press service of DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine

Quote: “The enemy continues to carry out systematic terrorist attacks on civilian and energy facilities in Ukraine. A DTEK TPP close to the front line, which had been attacked several times before, was damaged by a strike yesterday, 4 January.”

Details: No one was injured in the attack, but the plant’s equipment was badly damaged.

“The enemy has launched over a dozen attacks on the plant over the past two and a half months. Five power engineers were injured during one of them,” DTEK added.

Background: On 24 December, one of the units of a TPP in Donetsk Oblast experienced an emergency shutdown due to hostilities, and a 330kV line belonging to Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s national power company, was damaged.

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