The President of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate have issued statements about preparations for strikes on substations at nuclear power plants.
Indeed, nuclear power plants have now effectively become the only sources of electricity generation left in the country, and if the enemy wants to achieve a total blackout, it would have to target these facilities.
What this is about: next to every nuclear power plant there is a substation and switching yards that, so to speak, “export” the electricity generated at the plant and route it into transmission lines coming from different directions. In practice, this is part of the NPP’s infrastructure. The substation and switching equipment are sometimes located a kilometer from the reactors — and sometimes just 300 meters away.
Although Russia assures the world that it uses “high-precision” weapons, reality shows otherwise. Kinzhal missiles hit indiscriminately, and the accuracy of cruise and ballistic missiles is far from perfect. Everyone remembers the recent tragedy in Ternopil, when “high-precision” missiles hit a residential building instead of a factory. We also remember strikes on neighboring apartment buildings in Kyiv during an attack on the Luch Design Bureau. And we all recall the “precision” Shahed drones that were supposed to target a hydroelectric power plant but instead hit residential buildings in Vyshhorod.
I sincerely hope that the Russians will have enough sense not to attempt attacks on nuclear power plants, because a miss by an Iskander or a Kinzhal could turn into a second Chornobyl. Virtually all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants are located near either Belarus or Russian-occupied territory, and a potential catastrophe would affect everyone.
