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Tom Cooper: Synopsis of Russian Attacks On Ukrainian Power Grid
[Medium] Following a total of eight waves of missile strikes (the last of these on the evening of 6 December: it included at least 16 Shahed-136s and targeted the DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company), over 40% of the high voltage grid of Ukraine is badly damaged, as is a similar percentage of thermal- and hydroelectric power plants. Means: the Ukrainian power grid is now in a really bad condition, and no 1 million of power generators delivered by the West is going to change that. The result are multiple power outages in Kyiv and the neighbourhood, parts of Dnipropetrovsk and the Odesa Oblast. Much of the Sumy and Kremenchuk areas are without heating for more than a week. Emergency repairs are going on, but that’s likely to take a few days longer — even more so because much of what’s left of the power grid is overloaded by the consumption, and thus ‘instable’, while most of heavy equipment destroyed by Russian missile strikes takes, literally, weeks to replace… or is hard to repair… Because of this, the authorities are repeatedly forced to impose emergency shutdowns…
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2022-12-13 |
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