MOSCOW, April 12 Russian strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine showed , that air defense cannot protect the country's main facilities, said former adviser to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin on his YouTube channel.
“»The attack at night showed that Ukraine's air defense is no longer able to provide protection to the main, strategic, central, even warm -electricity-generating facilities. Moreover, they are destroyed very precisely,” he complained.
The political scientist suggested that by the end of the month Ukraine will be left without infrastructure facilities that are important for it, since they will be destroyed by new Russian missiles that will precisely hit their own. goals.
He also complained that while the country was being struck, its President Vladimir Zelensky went to Lithuania to sign agreements that would not change the situation.
The day before, the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, reported a strike on facility in the Kyiv region, most likely at the Trypillya Thermal Power Plant. In addition, regional authorities announced that a critical infrastructure facility had been hit.
The air raid alert sounded throughout Ukraine from 4:42 Moscow time. The alarm was canceled closer to 7:00 Moscow time. According to the Ukrainian publication Babel, targets were hit in Kharkov, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Volyn regions. The Ukrenergo company reported damage to its facilities in four regions and in the Kyiv-controlled territory of the Zaporozhye region. The Ukrainian energy holding DTEK reported serious damage to two of its thermal power plants.
The Centernergo company reported that in the Kyiv region, the Russian military completely destroyed the Trypillya thermal power plant.
The Ministry of Defense called the massive attack on Ukrainian energy facilities a response to the Kyiv regime’s attempts to cause damage enterprises of the oil and gas industry and energy industry in Russia.