Statement: Ukrainian nuclear power plant damaged in Russian attack

“Another difficult night for the Ukrainian energy industry. The Russians attacked one of DTEK’s thermal power plants,” the company said in a statement. The attack caused “serious damage” and injured three employees.

It was said that this was the seventh “mass attack” on Ukrainian power plants in the last three months.

The Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo said early Thursday that there had been a “massive attack on civil energy infrastructure facilities” the night before.

“Equipment in facilities in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Kyiv regions was damaged,” it said. However, the extent of the damage is still being “clarified.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attacks had halved generator capacity in the war-torn country compared to a year ago and called on allies to send more air defense systems to protect vital infrastructure.

The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had fired nine missiles and 27 Iranian-made attack drones and that air defense systems had shot down all but four missiles.

“Critical infrastructure facilities were attacked. The main focus of the attack was on eastern Ukraine, in particular the Dnipropetrovsk region,” said the Air Force, one of the regions in which DTEK operates.

It was said that air defense systems had also been activated in the regions of Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv and Kyiv, among others.

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