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BruckenRuski, 🇺🇦/🇺🇸 Profile picture
@BruckenRuski
Nov 22, 2022 • 22 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X
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The difference between what russia does - SCORCHED EARTH, and what Ukraine could do - STRATEGICALLY TARGET transformers supplying military & industrial capacity killing Ukrainians, is self-explanatory.

100km buffer in RU is a start to protect Ukrainians.

tinyurl.com/RuPwrGrid Image
@CinC_AFU @ua_industrial @itarmyofukraine @ng_ukraine @KpsZSU @JayinKyiv @i_army_org @EuromaidanPR @Ukraine /2
Who remembers the Bryansk Oil Depot fires?

To its SE & only 55 kilometers from Ukraine is the Druzhba crude oil hub in Vysokoe that sends oil to Belarus (Mazyr) & north towards St Petersburg.

Electricity pumps oil, not diesel or gasoline.

How this is civilian or off-limits? Image
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На південний захід від Високого і лише за 40 кілометрів від України знаходиться Новозибківська підстанція 110 кВ.

Його трансформатори 110 кВ живлять електродвигуни, які перекачують сиру нафту далі по лінії до Білорусі.

tinyurl.com/RuPwrGrid

Операція «Темне небо Росія» Image
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Kholmechi Traction Station
Every location has two 110/35kV transformers & transformers to energize the locomotives every 30-40km.

Тягова станція Холмечі
Кожне місце має два трансформатори 110/35 кВ і трансформатори для живлення локомотивів кожні 30-40 км. Image
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Різниця між тим, що робить Росія – ВИПАЛЕНА ЗЕМЛЯ, і тим, що могла б зробити Україна – СТРАТЕГІЧНО НАЦІЛЮВАТИ трансформатори, які постачають військову та промислову потужність і вбивають українців, зрозуміла сама собою.

100 км буфера в Росії – це старт для захисту українців. Image
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Transformer specifications are identified in red boxes.

They are unprotected, filled with oil & replacements are special order.

Специфікації трансформатора позначені червоними прямокутниками.

Вони незахищені, заповнені маслом, заміна здійснюється за спеціальним замовленням. Image
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150🇷🇺sites with 400 transformers within 150 km of🇺🇦are detailed on "Disrupt Russian Grid" map.

tinyurl.com/RuPwrGrid

150 російських об’єктів із 400 великими силовими трансформаторами в межах 150 км від України детально описано на цій публічній карті «Disrupt Russian Grid».
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#Frunzenskaya & #Belgorad 330/110kV XFRs supply all of the substations

They are same distance as those that burned.

#Schebekino🔥💯, but less vital

Трансформатори 330/110 кВ «Фрунзенська та Бєлгородська» живлять усі підстанції.

Вони на тій же відстані, що й ті, що згоріли. ImageПожежа трансформатора 330/1...ImageFrunzenskaya Transmission S...
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Unlike Ukrainians in official positions, limited in public statements, I can throw punches advocating for them.

На відміну від українців на офіційних посадах, обмежених у публічних висловлюваннях, я можу кидати удари, виступаючи від їхнього імені.

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Why will Ukraine evacuate ~3 million residents, unable to provide electric & heat?

Чому Україна евакуює ~3 мільйони жителів?

The effectiveness of Russian attacks on transformers.

Ефективність російських атак на трансформери.
/11
"Kherson railway Internet & power"


This bare minimum, vital provision has been set up by @Ukrzaliznytsia💛💙with the assistance of #Starlink.

UA Railways has ability to get power from its electrified rail system, but not supply 1000s of other needs.
@CinC_AFU @ua_industrial @itarmyofukraine @ng_ukraine @KpsZSU @JayinKyiv @i_army_org @EuromaidanPR @Ukraine @SenJoniErnst @Sen_JoeManchin @JimInhofe @SenKevinCramer @ChuckGrassley @SenBlumenthal @SenMarkKelly @LindseyGrahamSC @MartinHeinrich @timkaine

🙏for supporting🇺🇦 with MQ-1C request.

Please support 🇺🇦🚀🇷🇺🎯enabling strikes on energy infrastructure also.
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/12 the only thing more rare than a video appeal from @BruckenRuski is a strategic, planned attack on let energy assets aka substation transformers in Russia by AFU or SOF.

They are in range & I detail every one UA can strike with 🚀or drone.

These 2 need to be regular events
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Torch a #Russia-n Substation #Transformer Bingo

Us supporters of 🇺🇦, need to push our leaders to
#AuthorizeUkraineNow to initiate #OpsDarkSkiesRussia

🚀🎯🔥 at these locations will have significant impacts on 🇷🇺's ability to continue its murderous attacks & genocide in 🇺🇦 Image
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This is an interactive map of #intel. Just click any item to see its details.

tinyurl.com/RuPwrGrid😉

Це лише скріншот перевірених цілей. На самій карті це інтерактивний інтелектуальний «вибери власну пригоду». На зразок трахатись і дізнаватися, це клацніть і дізнайтеся. Image
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Who could build an App for that?

That being all of russia's transformers that need to be destroyed that can be accessible for all of Ukraine's brave men & women fighting for their country and our democratic ideals?

Let's talk!😉
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/17 APR01 AFU Strike #Belgorod Fuel Depot

Missed or unknown opportunity for AFU only 1,500m beyond helicopter deployed rocket strikes?

Based upon subsequent🇺🇦strikes on local, civilian supplying⚡️substations in #Belgorad, my conclusion...

Unrecognized.

/18 There were 2 notable fires inside Belgorad (city) at substations.

The first, no claims on cause were made, but the second on OCT 10th, it was claimed to be a UA rocket strike.

Given location in a residential neighborhood, literally screams war crime.
@CinC_AFU @ua_industrial @itarmyofukraine @ng_ukraine @KpsZSU @JayinKyiv @i_army_org @EuromaidanPR @Ukraine @edgarsrinkevics I believe you will agree, many of these assets are not military, but do enable the genocidal invasion of Ukraine to continue.

@CinC_AFU needs "approval" from NATO/US/UK/allies to strike them inside Russia to defend Ukraine from continued attacks.
/19
Kurskaya Transmission Station & its two 330/110kV Transformers serve one purpose and one purpose only... running giant compressors to pump natural gas into underground storage facilities.

I'm 99% it's equivalent in Ivano-Frankivsk has been hit.
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@EuromaidanPR ⬆️

There are more assets in Belarus, Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorad & Rostov enabling these attacks on Ukraine than just the military bases and equipment. All in range of Ukraine's current equipment. Image

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Dec 9, 2025
Only after like 5,000 hours of research & 1,000 russian subs later would this 110kV substation w/ rail traction station make it to my targets list.

To think some mid-level drone operator or 🇺🇦Def Intel ran this up the chain of command to get two 1000km range drones sent at it!😤 Image
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🙏 @neonhandrail for verifying "old news"... I can only imagine what "mil sig" UKR attributed to this effort to legitimatize targeting a "civilian" sub.
I've been saying since 2023 UKR hits subs in RF but they are always low value & w/o a coherent strategy
@neonhandrail Time after time, UKR sub & PP strikes in RF get 10s of 1000s of SM engagements... almost always w/o critical assessments of the impacts or context of previous efforts.
We're now at 3rd "winter season" of UKR "teaching russia a lesson", targeting drops to 0, & nothing accomplished
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Nov 22, 2025
🧵Lots of "highest tier" substation drone activity happening in occupied territories recently versus lower tier tactical targeting of the past.

Has there been a strategic change by AFU recently?

I believe so... scorched earth of grid assets in the OTs is now acceptable.
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Unlike OIM - Open Infrastructure Maps, I have always "color coded" based on tiers as seen in the chart above.
What most fail to recognize, OIM uses the same color for 330kv & 500kV (fuchsia), so higher vulnerability network interfaces are easily missed.
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What is also lost, the use of 1-phase vs 3-phase transformers at different tiers.

For 3-phase there is 1 XFR, however for 1-phase (read "single phase") there are 3 XFRs.

For 330/110, 220/110 & 110/35kV always one 3-phase XFR.

For 500kV & higher usually three 1-phase XFRs.
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Oct 14, 2024
From St. Petersburg to Lake Baikal there are no other assets more critical to Russia's Industrial Energy Military Complex than 500kV Large Power Transformers (LPTs) of its industrial electricity network.

We know 🇺🇦 long range One-Way-Attack (OWA) drones torch them, nicely.
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And we know exactly how many there are and exactly where they are located, almost all of which are entirely out in the open.
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 tinyurl.com/Russian-Grid-V…
We know they connect Russia's power stations (nuclear, hydro, gas & coal) to large industrial loads & logistics, requiring 10s to 100s of MW each to operate.

Also, most Russian cities have networks with small power stations to provide civilian needs, but not large loads.
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Mar 20, 2024
In yesterday’s 🇺🇦drone barrage of Kursk, @kromark suggested 🇷🇺EW near the 110kV substation was the target.

I’ll bite!

EW=RADAR to non-military types

Look at this post from December 2022, when Kursk AFB jet fuel storage tanks were the target for 🇺🇦

16 mo later LPTs are HVTs?
I have no reservations for scorched earth in 🇷🇺out 250km from 🇺🇦, w/ systematic destruction of 🇷🇺grid the backbone to this ‘drone sanctions’ enforced DMZ.

Value of this approach has been dismissed by so called ‘experts’ since day 1, unless it was explicitly military or fuel🎯
It is also dismissed by those claiming russia’s massive strikes on the🇺🇦grid was a ‘failure’ bc 🇷🇺 had no ‘military victories’. Apparently loss of industrial capacity and civilians is not ‘military victory’ enough for the western jarhead?
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Mar 6, 2024
How big & how much power do LPTs "transform" in large transmission hubs found in Russia?

Enough that you need 3 massive single phase LPTs, plus a redundant set to convert 750kv to 500kV or 500kV to 330kV or 220kV.

You can build to do "3x" through a pair of 3-phase for 220->110.
What is a "phase"? Those are the 3 big bundles of cables you see on transmission towers, each carrying a third of the AC power as it cycles 180 degrees from the others. R/G/W above.

Most 0rc 500/220kV stations have at least 1 additional 1-phase LPT on site, some 2. BLACK wire. Image
What are these?

Reactive Compensation, either 500kV or 750kV.

They don't convert voltages & are used for long distance transmission. They are single phase (RGW) & cost several million dollars each.

They are found in almost all 0rc stations, often equal to number of circuits. Image
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Feb 7, 2024
🧵What's in Gubkin & consistent with reported 🇺🇦 UAV drone activity that occurred in "Belgorod" on February 6?

The critical, newly built Gubkin 330kv TS (grid hub), opposite the Metallurgicheskaya TS which 🔥

Hot Targets needing repeat hits to destroy their transformers...
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Gubkin TS

51.3157, 37.6425

Estimated Transformer Value: $12,330,000

(2) Two 330/110/035kV 3-Phase, 3-Winding Transformer

(1) One 110/035/xx kV 3-Phase, 3-Winding Transformer
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Lebedi TS - 330/110kV

51.2121, 37.6015

Estimated Transformer Value: $16,440,000

(3) Three 330/110/035kV 3-Phase, 3-Winding Transformer
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