Russia launches massive attack on Ukrainian thermal power plant, forcing it offline

Russia has launched a large-scale attack on a thermal power plant belonging to DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, causing significant damage.

Source: DTEK Group

Details: The plant has stopped generating electricity because of significant damage to equipment as a result of the attack.

DTEK owns eight thermal power plants in total: Kryvorizka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Prydniprovska in the city of Dnipro, Ladyzhynska in Vinnytsia Oblast, Dobrotvirska in Lviv Oblast, Burshtynska in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and the Kurakhivska, Luhanska and Zaporizhzhia power plants.

The Luhanska and Zaporizhzhia thermal power plants have been under Russian occupation since 2022. Russian forces destroyed the Kurakhivska thermal power plant in 2024.

Background: In June, it was reported that DTEK plans to build a 650MW combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant on the site of the Burshtynska thermal power plant in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

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