Posted on 10/19/2022 3:33:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Ukrainian military made another attempt to land an assault force of up to two companies on the left bank of the Kakhovka reservoir and seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, with the attack repelled by Russian troops, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Wednesday.
"The Kiev regime does not cease provocations with the aim of creating the threat of a man-made disaster at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Today, at about 4:00 a.m., up to two enemy companies made another attempt to land an assault force on the left bank of the Kakhovka reservoir and seize the territory of the nuclear station. The enemy involved 37 boats and craft with Ukrainian troops to land the assault force, including 12 heavy and 25 light vessels," the spokesman said.
As a result of active operations by the Russian troops protecting the external perimeter of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the enemy’s assault force was destroyed, the general said.
(Excerpt) Read more at tass.com ...
Another bucketload of Ukie cannon fodder goes into the Russian guns...
This, along with a failed “recon mission” in the NE Kherson region using 1,000 soldiers. Who’s in command, George Custer?
Also wonder if Brandon demands 10% of it back?
Does NATO have a General George Custer?
The Big Guy always gets his vig.
More like Gen. Cluster...
Good one, you win.
Not even my tax dollars wasted by dirty politicians.
Agree, forces have been unnecessarily set in motion that will cause worldwide damage to Civilization.
You would think after Chernobyl Ukraine would be a little hesitate about creating another one.
Actually, Ukraine, Deep Swamp, Prog Rats and NATO have gotten away with most every False Flag they tried since WWII.
All we can do now is suck in a breath and sigh.
Yeah, and hope the Uke artillery miss their mark.
Methodical strikes on Ukraine’s energy system have been taking place for more than a week. How is our adversary tolerating them?
Despite the Ukrainian authorities’ claims that up to 30% of all power plants were damaged, there is no talk of any noticeable slump in electricity generation or consumption. According to Ukrenergo, electricity generation on “peaceful” Tuesday, October 5 (12.07 gigawatts) exceeds that on the 18th (11.13 gigawatts) by just 9%. Despite periodic rolling blackouts, Ukrainians have kept the grid relatively stable so far.
The problem is not the inefficiency of the strikes, but the huge spare capacity that Ukraine has. Due to the almost complete shutdown of industry and electricity exports to the EU, less than 50% of Ukraine’s power generation capacity is now in use. First and foremost, I am talking about TPPs and CHPPs, which now operate at just a fraction of their maximum capacity.
Does this mean that it is impossible to paralyze the Ukrainian energy system with the means available to the RF Armed Forces? NO!
More than 50% of the generation (~6 GW) is now done by nuclear power plants (Rivne, Khmelnitsky, and Southern Ukraine). Despite the huge capacity of TPPs, Ukraine does not have sufficient fuel reserves for them.
Of course, suggesting that the MoD should be like the Ukrainians and start shelling nuclear power plants is foolish. But there is another solution: to attack the outdoor switchgear of the substations to which the NPPs are connected, namely their transformers.
First of all, we are talking about 750kV substations - if all transformers at these substations are destroyed, the flow of power from the NPPs to the Ukrainian energy system will stop. What would it mean for Ukrainian power engineers?
Firstly, the Ukrainian NPP would repeat the fate of ZNPP and would be shut down because of its inability to “recycle” the electricity it produces. Restarting a nuclear power plant is a labor-intensive and long process. With cold weather looming, a sudden shutdown of all NPPs could have catastrophic consequences.
Second, although we mentioned earlier that Ukraine has a huge reserve of TPPs and cogeneration plants, it will not be possible to just use them to generate electricity. The problem is a shortage of fuel, especially coal. Fuel supplies from the West look unrealistic, given the gravest energy crisis in the EU. Even if the Europeans can allocate some resources to Ukraine, the question of logistics remains. Again, no one prevents the Russian Armed Forces from continuing strikes on other targets.
It is important to note that since the beginning of massive strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure on October 10 and up until the 17th, no strikes on 750 kV substations have been recorded. This may have been due to the MOE’s inherent humanism, but on the 17th several such substations were hit at once: Severo-Ukrainskaya, Dniprovskaya, and Vinnitskaya. The damage to transformers at these substations immediately caused rolling blackouts in Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk.
Time will tell if such strikes are a one-off action or just the first swallows of a change in the MoD’s approach to the destruction of Ukraine’s strategic infrastructure.
The coordinates of all 750kV substations are available, and all of them are within the range of our weaponry. The only question is whether a decision will be made to destroy them or not.
It will not be easy to achieve the deterioration of the Ukrainian energy system by shelling only the rank-and-file CHPs. As always, a methodical approach to the task always yields great results.
By Redovka
Russia launches counteroffensive towards Dvorichna; capturing Horobivka...
DPA Update @ 5:00 Minutes.
https://youtu.be/wz0M4dXmAtw
—> Actually, Ukraine, Deep Swamp, Prog Rats and NATO have gotten away with most every False Flag they tried since WWII.
I’m expecting a small nuke to be set off as a false flag by the western homoglobalists.
Do know it's much more difficult, bureaucratically, for a Russian Federation President to direct the initial use of a Nuclear Weapon than an American President.
Its kind of hard to understand why Baghdad Bob was a joke, and now TASS and the Russian MOD are believable when Russia is the aggressor.
Then you’ve got no worries and there won’t be any Nazis freezing in the dark there junior!
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