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On the night of October 13-14, the Russian armed forces launched a series of strikes which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, were focused on targeting transport and fuel-and-energy infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF).
Throughout the day, power outages were recorded in more than seven regions of Ukraine. By the evening, several districts of Kyiv, including the city center, were left without electricity. According to reports, these disruptions were caused by accidents on high-voltage power lines. Repair work is underway, but the timeline for full restoration remains unknown.
Most likely, the “accident on the high-voltage lines” reported by DTEK is not a local incident, but a systemic consequence of recent strikes by Russian forces on CHP-5, the loss of reserves at CHP-6, and the degradation of the 330 kV backbone following attacks on the cascade of hydroelectric power plants.
Against this backdrop, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy confirmed that emergency outages affected the Cherkasy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, partially Kirovohrad and Sumy regions.
Details on the Strikes in Ukraine
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported strikes on targets in 138 districts, including warehouses of fuel and lubricants, rocket and artillery weapons, and temporary deployment points of UAF units. Specific objects, which according to the Russian side had military significance, were hit.
In Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, a strike was carried out on the “Siticross” oil depot. According to sources, a hit on a technological unit caused the ignition of a reactor block and reservoirs with oil products. This facility was allegedly used for fueling military equipment.
In the town of Kitchenkovka, Kharkiv region, the target was a preliminary oil and gas treatment facility of the Sakhalin field. Reports indicate the destruction of the installation, damage to the pumping station, and reservoirs with gas condensate. The destruction of such objects is believed to strike a blow to the fuel and energy complex involved in supporting defense needs.
In Bohdanivka, Kirovohrad region, and the locality of Dolynske in the same region, the “Tymkovo” traction substation was hit. A transformer and a power distribution device were damaged, which, according to available data, led to the power supply of the traction section being switched to backup lines. This substation provided power to railway infrastructure.
The “Kharkivska” (Artema-330) substation, a key distribution node for Kharkiv, was disabled. Reports indicate the destruction of autotransformers and open switchgear, causing large-scale disruptions in the city’s and industrial sector’s power supply. Restoring stable operation of the facility is estimated to take a considerable amount of time.
In addition to the above, strikes were carried out on a local Territorial Recruitment Center (TCC) in Sloviansk, on a stabilization point of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade in Nikolaivka, where, according to sources, a temporary medical point was destroyed, and on a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons on the territory of the “Loshchanske” agricultural enterprise, where ammunition of various calibers was stored. The warehouse facilities were hit, with up to 15 tons of ammunition and technical equipment destroyed, which will complicate the supply of artillery units in the Kramatorsk direction.
Strikes on Russia
During the specified period, Russian air defense systems, according to statements by Russian officials, destroyed 40 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. The largest number of drones were shot down over the Belgorod (17) and Voronezh (12) regions. In the Belgorod region, drones struck infrastructure facilities, including an enterprise parking lot in the village of Dorogoshch, where a civilian was killed. In the Kherson region, civilian casualties as a result of UAF attacks were recorded over the past day. In Horlivka, regular shelling continues; over the past week, these attacks have resulted in 21 deaths and 83 injured, including minors.
While Ukraine’s energy infrastructure suffers from a series of massive strikes, significant events are unfolding in the country’s political sphere. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has decided to strip the current mayor of Odesa, Gennady Trukhanov, of his citizenship, citing his alleged possession of Russian citizenship.
Gennady Trukhanov
Following this, Zelensky announced Trukhanov’s dismissal and the subsequent creation of a military administration in Odesa, which is expected to be headed by Serhii Lysak, former head of the SBU in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Zelenskyy stated: “Odesa deserves better protection and greater support. This can be implemented in the format of a military administration. All necessary decisions will be made. I will appoint the head of the military administration in the near future.”
Trukhanov himself intends to challenge the deprivation of his citizenship in court and continue to perform the duties of mayor until an official decision is made by the city council.
Experts and political observers see these events as a continuation of the course towards the concentration of power in the hands of the president and his administration. As noted, the central government is taking steps to establish complete control over political processes in the country, including the “taming” of local self-government heads and the removal of undesirable individuals, who, in the opinion of some, include recalcitrant mayors such as Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
A summer attempt to bring anti-corruption bodies—the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), created with Western support—under control, according to these assessments, temporarily failed due to pressure from European partners and internal protests, forcing Zelensky to retreat but not change his overall strategy.
Some commentators link the choice of Trukhanov as a “demonstrative victim” to the fact that, unlike Klitschko, many in Ukraine consider him a “pro-Russian” politician, and the West is unlikely to actively defend him. Furthermore, a number of observers, including Trukhanov himself, see in the recent decree a preparation for possible future elections, as the deprivation of citizenship could prevent the former mayor from running himself or from using the city’s resources to support potential opponents of the current government.
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we will ensure the afu can continue fighting…heheheh
then go yourself … ah but your are a coward, so no.
total penetration of russia!!!
this idiot is our daily reminder how idiotic the west has become.
i am much penetration of russia!!!
you know when your side gets splattered on the ground but you brag about imaginary victories ?
american and european missiles are depleted… that´s why the paedophile is shouthing… what´s the situation in russia? time to strike nafo is now, not waiting until 2030! but first nuke ukraine… enough is enough! use tactical nukes to destroy the afu (we now very well were they are) and take the former soviet republic…
much gnashing of teeth for this false nose.
time to apply the chechen scenario to ukraine:
1- kill all the the leaders
2- carpet bomb the cities (why sumy is standing, kharkov, chernigov? citizens should be leaving in droves in panic…
3- use more anti-personnel warheads against banderites
4- and if tomahawks ever get even close to russia, nuke all the afu troops, leaders and centers…
the west won´t risk a total nuclear world war… they are cowards that run of iraq and afghanistan
yes, please do the west a favor and paint yourself as the villain so that they can point at russia so righteously.
the current strategy is working wonder, so it’s just better to throw it away.
the world “order” is over…
until when russian “leaders” will just watch?
europeans are robbing china now… who could tell huh?
relationship with europe-us should be severed and the war will start, or at least we should menace the weakling gayropeans!
china is ready for the end of the world…russia is asleep!
the west is sinking, bested by china, india and russia among others. europeans robbing china must be some kind of hilarious joke i’m too european to understand.