Ukraine's energy system

 Russian military strikes on Ukraine's energy system on 17 October 2022 💥💥💥💥

On October 17, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces once again carried out massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

Rybar's team analysed data from open sources, reports from eyewitnesses on the ground, as well as information from closed sources. In a number of cases, the effects of the fire strikes are not as clear and data is lacking. 

🔻List of confirmed affected sites:

▪️Severo-Ukrainian 750kV substation - 750/330kV power autotransformer and the building of the OPU were affected. Outages at the substation led to blackouts in Kharkiv as well. Light later returned when the emergency circuit was triggered.

Coordinates: 50.690147, 33.769812

▪️PS Dniprovska 750kV - The 750/330kV autotransformer is presumably affected. Serious power outages in Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkiv.

Coordinates: 48.435985, 34.036021

▪️General Information and Computing Centre Ukrenergo - Despite this morning's strikes, one Geranium-2 kamikaze UAV was not enough. We wrote that in the event of a qualitative firing it would be possible to disrupt the entire system of selecting the optimal parameters of electrical modes, power generation capacity of power plants and network switching schemes. But in fact, the control room panel remained intact, as did the back-up system.

Coordinates: 50.441491, 30.494200

🔻Probable targets affected:

▪️ Rovno 330kV substation - the impact caused an emergency power outage in the city centre. Rivne has an important substation and high-voltage line leading from the Rivne NPP.

Coordinates: 50.641329, 26.224903

▪️PS Khmelnitsky 330 kV - there was an emergency power outage in part of the Khmelnitsky region after the Geranium strikes. 

Coordinates: 49.40906213878672, 26.93097798826966

▪️PS Vinnitskaya 750 kV is a likely target of fire. There was a claim that some "critical infrastructure facility" was hit by three missiles. This object could equally have been the Ladyzhyn TPP, which was already hit last week. But since there are no casualties and no evidence from the ground, we are inclined to believe it is the Vinnitskaya PS.

Coordinates: 49.16453593799508, 28.721943294994134 

🔻Based on the available information, it is safe to say that the targeting of energy infrastructure continues. And this time they are 750kV substations. Yes, the damage is not as widespread as it could be. 

The most important result is the deterioration of the entire Ukrainian energy system in the run-up to the cold weather. Yes, the removal of the power system could be forced: missiles and UAVs are now being pinpointed. Extremely many facilities are still intact and unharmed. 

But the point-by-point firing continues. And that is the main thing.

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