Russia launched a destructive assault against a major Ukrainian thermal power plant on Friday, June 12, inflicting severe structural damage on critical energy infrastructure and causing casualties among utility personnel.
Fatalities and infrastructure ruins at DTEK
According to an official statement released by the press service of DTEK – Ukraine’s largest private energy operator – the bombardment directly struck one of the company’s thermal power installations. The kinetic impact killed one utility worker on duty, while a second employee sustained severe injuries.
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“During the attack, one of our colleagues was killed, and another was wounded,” DTEK reported, adding that emergency medical teams are currently providing all necessary assistance to the hospitalized survivor.
The enterprise confirmed that the explosive arrivals caused “significant destruction” to specialized generation and transmission equipment. Engineering teams and state emergency crews were deployed to the facility immediately after the all-clear signal to isolate the damage and begin emergency stabilization operations.
The fatal strike marks a continuation of an unyielding campaign directed at DTEK’s industrial footprint. Just days prior, on Monday, Russian forces executed a coordinated drone and artillery blitz targeting four separate DTEK energy facilities located within the Dnipropetrovsk region. Throughout that weekend, the Russian military repeatedly and deliberately targeted the surrounding province’s power grid, systematically wearing down local generation capacity.
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