on 26 August, there was one of the largest attacks on the energy infrastructure. There may be severe restrictions on electricity consumption for 1-2 weeks until the distribution systems are restored. Former Minister of Fuel and Energy, President of the All-Ukrainian Energy Assembly Ivan Plachkov told Kyiv24 TV channel, Komersant ukrainskyi
reports.
According to his forecasts, power supply restrictions due to the consequences of the attack will be in place in Ukraine for one to two weeks.
“The restrictions will be in place not only today. I think for a week or two, if there are no new such massive attacks,” he said.
Plachkov stressed that the Russian attack on Ukraine on 26 August was one of the most massive attacks on energy infrastructure.
“Unfortunately, it was one of the most massive attacks on energy infrastructure. The aim of this attack was to achieve a total blackout in the Ukrainian energy system. This did not happen, the power engineers responded quickly and professionally,” the expert noted.
The President of the Ukrainian Energy Assembly explained that in order to achieve the goal, the Russians inflicted serious blows on the distribution and power supply systems, in particular, they hit the Kyiv hydroelectric power station.
“There were strikes on distribution systems and power generation systems, including nuclear power plants. There was also a strike on the Kyiv hydroelectric power station. Power equipment there was also partially damaged. Serious work is underway. We need to restore the scheme to make it more reliable to ensure that consumers can be fully supplied,” he concluded.
Missile attack on Ukraine on 26 August: what is known
Another massive, combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine began at around 3:00 a.m. with an attack by numerous attack drones. Up to a dozen of these drones (such as the Shahed) approached Kyiv from different directions. However, the air defence forces and means destroyed all the enemy drones on the outskirts of the city.
And at around 5:00, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the enemy had taken 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers into the sky. The Ukrainian Navy recorded the launch of 4 Kalibr missile carriers, with a total volley of up to 28 missiles. Subsequently, the enemy took to the skies 6 Tu-22m3 strategic bombers, followed by 3 MiG-31Ks with Kinzhal missiles. This arsenal was supplemented by ballistic missile launches from Crimea and the western regions of Russia.
According to preliminary information, the main target of the complex, combined attack of all these numerous cruise, ballistic, aerial ballistic missiles and attack drones was infrastructure.
The Russian Armed Forces used:
- x-101/55 cruise missiles from 6 Tu-95s (Saratov region and the Caspian region);
- zm14 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea;
- allegedly guided aircraft missiles of various types from the Azov Sea, Sumy and Belgorod regions;
- x-22 supersonic cruise missiles from 6 Tu-22m3 aircraft from the territory of Kursk region of the Russian Federation;
- 9m723 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles;
- x-47m2 supersonic ballistic missiles of the Kinzhal complex from the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation;
- UAVs of the Shahed and Gerbera types.
Lutsk, Stryi, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other settlements were under attack