The Russian Federation uses a new strategy for firing of Ukraine infrastructure: NPPs - NYT

Russia's new strategy is to destroy substations. The attacks began at the end of August, IAEA said. During a recent attack on the power system of Ukraine on Thursday, November 28, Russia struck the critically important objects of the power grid related to nuclear power plants. About it writes The New York Times. It was the third such attack in about the same number of months.

The IAEA stated that Russian blows have struck electrical substations, most important for three nuclear power plants in Ukraine. Although there was no direct damage to the reactors, they all reduced production as a preventive measure and one was disconnected from the network. "Ukraine's energy infrastructure is extremely fragile and vulnerable that it exposes nuclear safety of great risk," Raphael Marian Grosssey, Head of IAEA, said on the eve, November 28.

Although the Russian Federation attacks Ukraine's energy is not the first winter, the network has not fallen, mostly because most of the electricity production depends on the nuclear power plants that have largely avoided air attacks. Russia's new strategy is to destroy substations. The attacks began at the end of August, IAEA said. Substations distribute electricity from reactors to other regions of the country.

Three nuclear power plants, a total of nine reactors, provide about two -thirds of the power of all electricity in the country, according to Sean Bernie, a nuclear expert from Greenpeace Ukraine. Substations also have a second, equally important function: they supply electricity to nuclear power plants that are required to cool the reactors and waste fuel.

"Loss of cooling function on one or more reactors will inevitably lead to melting nuclear fuel and large -scale radioactive emission," Greenpeace warned journalists. UN experts made a similar warning in the statement. According to them, "further damage to the power system of Ukraine threatens to switch off electricity, which will increase the risk of loss of nuclear reactors of access to the network to power their security systems. " This can lead to a serious nuclear disaster.

Volodymyr Omelchenko, Director of the Razumkov Center Energy Programs, said in a comment to Kyiv24 that the Russians were targeted during the recent shelling of Ukraine. As a result, the situation in the power system of Ukraine has deteriorated significantly. "Throughout Ukraine, on average, 12 hours we have a shutdown, big problems. This is caused by blows to the power system. This time they have focused on the substations that give power from nuclear power plants," Omelchenko said.