Ukraine’s largest thermal power plant demolished by missile attack

estern Ukraine overnight, officials said on Friday, in the latest barrage targeting the country’s already damaged power infrastructure.
Kaniv hydropower plant was among the targets along with Dnister plant, which is located on the Dnister River, flowing through neighbouring Moldova, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
“The terrorist state of Russia wishes to repeat the ecological disaster in the Kherson region following Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka HPP (blown up by Russian forces last year). This time, not only Ukraine but also Moldova are at risk,” he said on X.
Last week, Russia also hit Ukraine’s largest dam, the DniproHES in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, eight times during a massive overnight attack.
“We urge our partners to respond quickly and decisively to Russia’s intensified bombing campaign against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure,” Zelenskiy said in a call for more air defences.
A senior official at the Centrenergo generating company reported that the 10-unit Zmiivska thermal plant in northeastern Kharkiv region, an area subject to many Russian attacks, had been destroyed in a big wave of strikes on March 22.
“The consequences were destructive, the station is destroyed,” Andriy Hota, chairman of the company’s supervisory board told Interfax Ukraine news agency.
“There were many direct hits. Everything we repaired in preparation for the winter was destroyed.”
The wave of attacks on March 22 was described by Kyiv officials as the most intense since the February 2022 invasion.
Regional officials said Russian forces had also attacked infrastructure overnight into Friday in the Kamianske district near the city of Dnipro. At least one person was wounded. Agency