{"id":38638,"date":"2024-04-12T03:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38638"},"modified":"2024-04-12T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:08:10","slug":"russian-airstrikes-destroy-kyivs-largest-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=38638","title":{"rendered":"Russian airstrikes destroy Kyiv\u2019s largest power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2024\/04\/10\/zelensky-ukraine-us-aid-russia-pleitgen-sot-cnc-vpx.cnn\">Russia<\/a> destroyed the largest power-generating plant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/11\/europe\/ukraine-parliament-scrap-demobilization-plans-intl\/index.html\">Ukraine\u2019s<\/a> Kyiv region in a missile attack on Thursday, as President Volodomyr Zelensky accused the West of \u201cturning a blind eye\u201d to his country\u2019s need for more air defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said it shot down 18 of the incoming missiles and 39 of the drones. Russia fired 82 missiles and drones in total, including six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles \u2013 none of which Ukraine\u2019s air defenses were able to down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no casualties, and the attack has not resulted in power cuts in Ukraine\u2019s capital region Kyiv or other regions supplied by Trypilska TPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trypilska Thermal Power Plant (TPP), the largest supplier of electricity to Kyiv, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr regions, was completely destroyed, according to the energy company Centrenergo. The company has lost 100% of its power generation across its three plants, which have all been destroyed or occupied by Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA black day in the history of Centrenergo,\u201d it said in a statement. \u201cThe scale of the destruction is terrible. Money can\u2019t estimate it. This is the biggest challenge for us in the history of the company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over more than two years of war, Russia has systematically <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/interactive\/2023\/02\/europe\/putin-ukraine-energy-infrastructure-attack\/index.html\">targeted Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure<\/a> in an attempt to break the country\u2019s power grid and, with it, the Ukrainian people\u2019s spirit, by depriving them of electricity, heat, water and other essential services in the often-freezing winter temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Russia destroyed the largest power-generating plant in Ukraine\u2019s Kyiv region in a missile attack on Thursday, as President Volodomyr Zelensky accused the West of \u201cturning a blind eye\u201d to his country\u2019s need for more air defenses. Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said it shot down 18 of the incoming missiles and 39 of the drones. Russia fired 82 missiles and drones in total, including six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles \u2013 none of which Ukraine\u2019s air defenses were able to down. There were no casualties, and the attack has not resulted in power cuts in Ukraine\u2019s capital region Kyiv or other regions supplied&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38640,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38638\/revisions\/38640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}