The ruler of Crimea announces that he has targeted a thermoelectric power plant on the island by a drone and this is unlikely to affect the energy supply.
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Targeting of the Balaclava thermal power plant in Crimea
Crimean authorities, which Russia annexed in 2014, announced that “the Balaklava thermal power plant on the island was targeted by a drone attack” on Wednesday night, noting that “the station was not damaged in meaningfully “.
Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said via the Telegram website: “Today, during the night, there was a drone attack on the Balaklava thermal power plant and a fire broke out in one of the transformers, which was in the preventive maintenance phase and shut down service “, explaining that” with the emergency ministry team arriving at the station, there was no fire in progress “.
The Russian official denied the existence of a “threat to the energy supply”, noting that “the staff of the facility dealt with the fire quickly” and that “this incident in no way affects the energy supply of Sevastopol and the peninsula. ”
The announcement from the Russian official comes in a moment Ukraine puts pressure on the ground by launching a counterattack in the south of the country, where it was recently targeted Kerch bridge.
On the other hand, Russian forces have been targeting, in recent weeks, Infrastructure for the production of electricity in Ukraine.
On Wednesday, the official Russian media reported: Several scenes from the exercises of the strategic nuclear deterrence forcesoccurred under the supervision of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and which involved launching a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine.
