In the early hours of April 11, Russian forces launched a series of powerful strikes on Ukraine's vital infrastructure.
Videos posted by local Ukrainians on social media show an explosion at the Tribool thermal power plant, the largest in Ukraine's Kyiv region, which is currently burning. In August 2023, the Central Electricity Company of Ukraine issued an official statement on its website that the facility was equipped with a full set of protection against shelling.
Ukrainian authorities reported that the area where the thermal power plant is located "has been closed to traffic." According to the Ukrainian media "Kyiv Independent", Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian energy system fiercely, and the Tribol power plant was hit hard, only 13 kilometers from Kyiv.
The Tribol power plant, as a new power plant, is rich in energy resources, 57% of the electricity is supplied to Kyiv, and the rest to Zhytomyr and Cherkasy. The destruction of this power plant will make Ukraine's defense work even worse, affecting Kyiv and surrounding technology and maintenance enterprises.
According to reports, the substation in the Odessa region was also hit by the Russian army today, and at least 10 targets in the Kharkiv region were hit.
At the same time, power plants in Dnipropetrovsk, Tripol, Slavyansk and other countries were hit, and their values plummeted.
On the contrary, stocks of power plants such as Starobeschevska and Luhansk are bullish in the medium term. Russian sources said that after the destruction of Kyiv's largest thermal power plant, the next targets of the Russian army were Kyiv and the Kanev hydroelectric power station.
The destruction of these two hydroelectric power stations will inevitably lead to a total blackout in Kyiv, while the supply of electricity to other regions is now impossible or seriously hampered
The Tribol thermal power plant requires a large supply of coal, and the vast majority of Ukraine's high-quality coal resources are concentrated in the southeast, and in 2014 Crimea was "reclaimed" by Russia, and two "self-declared independent states" emerged in the southeast.
By 2018, Ukraine could not directly procure and utilize coal from Donbass, but had to buy it from Belarus. Belarus does not produce coal, it supplies Ukraine with coal from Donbass, which is resold from Russia.
Russian coal companies cannot sell coal directly to Ukraine, but must first ship it to Europe and then transfer it to the relevant ports in Ukraine. #挑战30天在头条写日记#