MOSCOW, October 14. /TASS/. Overnight, Russian forces launched a massive strike hitting communication and energy infrastructure facilities in Kiev and the Kiev and Kharkov Regions that support Ukraine's military-industrial complex, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
TASS has compiled the key details on the targets hit.
Ministry’s statement
- Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike using ground-based precision weapons and long-range attack drones against targets in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry reported.
- According to the ministry, the strike hit communication and energy infrastructure facilities in Kiev and the Kiev and Kharkov Regions used to support the military-industrial complex and the armed forces of Ukraine.
Targets hit
- The ministry later specified that the ATM Ukrsibbank data center in Kiev was hit. The facility handled Internet traffic exchange for gathering intelligence about the Russian Armed Forces.
- Russian forces also struck the Darnitskaya combined heat and power plant (CHP-4), powering military-industrial complex facilities in Kiev.
- In addition, the Kievskaya combined heat and power plant (CHP-5) was hit; it supplies electricity to military facilities and military-industrial enterprises in Kiev and the Kiev Region.
- The Russian Armed Forces also struck the Kiev CHP-6 plant, powering military logistics facilities and storage sites for weaponry and military hardware in the northeastern part of the Kiev Region.
- In addition, the Tripolskaya thermal power plant, powering military-industrial facilities in Kiev and it's environs, was struck.
- Russian forces also struck the Kievskaya electrical substation, providing for the transmission and distribution of electricity from western Ukrainian regions to Ukraine’s military facilities in the Kiev Region.
- Furthermore, the Kharkov CHP-5 combined heat and power plant, powering military-industrial facilities in Kharkov and the western part of the Kharkov Region, was struck.
- The Russian Armed Forces also struck the Zmiyevskaya thermal power plant, supplying electricity to Ukrainian military facilities in the southeastern part of the Kharkov Region.
Situation in Ukraine
- Energy facilities in Kiev sustained damage following explosions, city mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.
- Strikes were recorded on "several energy facilities in the capital" of Ukraine, he wrote on his Telegram channel.
- He provided no further details.
- Public electric transport services were suspended in two districts of Kiev, the municipal enterprise Kievpastrans reported.
- Power outages began in Kiev due to widespread damage to energy facilities, Klitschko later announced.
- Specifically, he described the strikes on the city's energy infrastructure as massive.
- Emergency power outages began in five of Kiev's ten districts following the explosions and damage to energy facilities, the Ukrainian energy holding company DTEK reported.
- It specified that the Darnitsky, Dneprovsky, Pechersky, and Solomensky districts, as well as part of the Goloseyevsky district, were affected.
- All of Kiev's combined heat and power (CHP) plants, as well as the Kiev Region’s largest energy facility--the Tripolskaya Thermal Power Plant--sustained damage from explosions, the Strana news outlet reported.
- According to the report, strikes on all of the Ukrainian capital's CHP plants were recorded overnight and on Wednesday morning.
- In the region, the Tripolskaya Thermal Power Plant was damaged, along with the Kievskaya and Novokievskaya substations, which have capacities of 750 kilovolts (kV) and 330 kV, respectively.
- The outlet accompanied its report with photos showing massive fires at the sites of the explosions.
- The Epicentr company's last remaining logistics center was destroyed by the explosions, the Ukrainian outlet Insider reported.
- According to the report, the facility was located in the city of Khmelnitsky in western Ukraine.
- The report includes photos and video of the fire at the logistics facility.
- Water supply issues may arise in Kiev's Pechersky district due to a power outage at the city's water pumping station, the utility company Kievvodokanal reported.
- Ukrainian energy facilities sustained significant damage from the explosions, leaving at least 600,000 people without electricity, Vladimir Zelensky stated.