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Sep 8, 8 tweets

🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia Launches A Massive Combined Strike Over The Weekend

Russian forces launched more than 800 drones and missiles against Ukrainian infrastructure. Critical energy, transportation, and military infrastructure suffered significant damage.

here's how🧵

Kiev Region

Russia’s primary target was the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant, the largest energy hub in central Ukraine. Key damage includes:

🔸Switchgear (330 kV): Fire and irreversible transformer damage disrupting grid stability.

🔸Coal conveyors: Critical fuel supply lines destroyed, halting boiler operations.

🔸Chimney & machine hall: Structural hits and cable fires disabling two power units (400 MW total).

With 100% generation assets lost, Kiev, Cherkasy, and Zhytomyr regions face prolonged blackouts

Kiev Government District Hit Amid Swarm Attack

The Sviatoshynskyi warehouses are versatile facilities designed for general logistics, temperature-sensitive goods, customs-cleared items, and industrial materials. The complex was struck by:

🔸4 Iskander-K cruise missiles and ~50 Geran-2 drones.

Also, the Cabinet of Ministers building damaged by falling debris.

Pokrovsk (Dnipropetrovsk Region): Energy Grid Crippled

Geran-2 strikes triggered cascading power failures, disrupting military logistics and civilian supply lines.

Repair efforts hampered by ongoing strikes

Kryukovsky Bridge (Kremenchuk) Targeted Again

🔸Direct hits on rail/road bridge across Dnipro River, critical for Ukrainian military logistics.

🔸Adjacent energy facility struck, causing internet and power outages in Poltava region

Another angle of the impressive struck on the Kryukovsky Bridge in Kremenchug.

Novodonetske (Donetsk region): UAV Base and Marine Battalion Decimated

🔸14th Operational Brigade: Munitions depot destroyed.

🔸503rd Marine Battalion: Vehicles (HMMWV, IVECO truck) and generator eliminated; comms warehouse damaged

Krivoy Rog Industrial Zone Paralyzed

🔸Combined Geran-2 and Iskander strikes knocked out power to metallurgical plants and urban areas.

🔸This mirrors Russia’s tactical strategy to degrade Ukraine’s defense-industrial capacity

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