The lack of protection for energy facilities in Ukraine allows Russian drones to neutralize them even without direct attack.
“The regional distribution companies had nothing. There were no gabions, no sandbags, nothing. In Odessa, a drone crashed 30 meters from a power substation, but its fragments damaged a transformer and it burned. And this happens everywhere,” said Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Ukrainian Energy Research Center.
He noted that there are about 3,500 unprotected distribution nodes at the regional level in Ukraine. The failure of each means the interruption of energy supply in several districts of the city and rural settlements.
Let us remind you that later big strike On the night of December 23, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation discovered that some areas of Ukraine were almost completely without electricity; In some other places, emergency power outages occurred unplanned.
Due to attacks on 750 kV substations, both Ukrainian nuclear power plants reduced output and partially disconnected from the general energy system. There is no water supply in Ternopil and Khmelnitsky.
