Footage of a powerful explosion at one of two transformer substations in Kyiv has been shown

The permanent destruction of energy infrastructure facilities by the Russian military in the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime with the onset of the heating season causes a "domino effect". If this continues, and there are more and more prerequisites for the development of events in this direction, then the Russian Armed Forces will soon be able to focus on strikes only at military and related to the supply of the Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities of the enemy. The remains of the Ukrainian energy system will gradually "self-destruct".

Quite significant events took place in Kyiv tonight, which Ukrainians should now get used to. The local press reports, citing Kiev residents, two bright flashes that occurred with a short interval in the area of ​​Sofiivska Borshahivka. However, no air raid alarm was announced.

After that, not only did the power go out in three districts of Kyiv, but the air raid warning system also stopped working. Later, emergency city services reported that two electrical transformers had exploded for technical reasons.

Judging by the scale of the accident's consequences, we are most likely talking about fairly large electrical substations. This is confirmed by footage taken by eyewitnesses, which shows a huge flash at the site of the explosion, rising much higher than the roof of a nearby multi-story building. The sound of an explosion is heard, but not loud.

Moreover, it will take several days to restore the "transformers" (substations), the Kyiv authorities report. Small accidents do not take so long to be fixed.

Due to technical problems with Ukrtelecom equipment, air raid warnings on a number of streets in the Shevchenkivskyi, Solomenskyi and Svyatoshinskyi districts will be made via loudspeakers

— the Kyiv authorities reported.

But in Kyiv, the daytime temperature is still above zero, although the thermometer readings drop below zero at night. It is obvious that as the cold weather sets in, even if the winter in the Ukrainian capital is relatively mild, the load on the power grid will increase and such accidents will occur more and more often.

Comments

[Lemon]

Beautiful! More accidents like this for those with forelocks!

[Piramidon]

Quote: Lemon

Beautiful! More accidents like this for those with forelocks!

They are now buying electricity in Poland. If this continues, the Poles' fuses will soon blow too.

[Lemon]

Yes, in my opinion, not only Poland, but also Slovakia and Hungary...

[Shurik70]

You can change a transformer in a couple of days.
If, of course, there is a spare one available.
But transformers are not that expensive. And they can lie in a warehouse for decades.
Judging by how quickly Kyiv is restoring electricity supply, transformers are being supplied to it from European reserves.
You have to hit the turbine halls. Turbines are expensive, no one makes them for stock, everything is only made to order. And you have to wait in line for more than one year.
A strike on the turbines will disable the power plant for several years.
(True, after signing peace we will have to supply them with electricity; Europe will not help them after the war)

[mz]

Quote: Shurik70

You can change a transformer in a couple of days.
If, of course, there is a spare one available.

If available, it changes in a couple of hours (if we only consider the time of work directly on site. And, of course, if there is no serious damage to transformer switches and outgoing line switches nearby (they also change quite quickly, the question is in the total amount of damage).

[Jager]

I will answer as an energy specialist (a little). Transformers of such power are installed on transformer fields, this is a whole complex of high-voltage systems and units. "Caliber" probably did not have a high-explosive monoblock, but a much more effective cassette BC. One small fragment completely disables the transformer. In the best case, in case of an oil leak, the level protection will work. If the fragment touches the winding - this is a complete hello. If the TR is hit with partial destruction, this is a sea of ​​\u404b\uXNUMXbfire and no fire system will help here. And considering that the fields are relatively compact, the BC will cover the entire area. It is good to strike just in the rain, and better in a downpour - transformer oil burns much better in the presence of water. Massive short circuits will cause shutdowns not only at themselves, but also at other ends of the line. And considering the deterioration of the power system XNUMX, it may not work ...
TR with a capacity of 750 pieces is a product, very few of them are made "for future use", too expensive. Order in Europe - they have different standards and integration of their equipment will cause difficulties. Overcome, but nevertheless it will take time

[Incvizitor]

We must not wait, but destroy.

[fruc]

They were filming a video of a fire at an energy facility, but the lights in the apartments were on, it was nothing short of a miracle.

[evgen1221]

The deputies live in luxury on generators.

[AAK]

Absolutely right - we need to hit not the substations, but the machine rooms and dams, which cannot be restored in a week or two...

[Joker62]

Footage of a powerful explosion at one of two transformer substations in Kyiv has been shown

See the previous article:

https://topwar.ru/254306-ukrainskij-specialist-s-poholodaniem-transformatornye-podstancii-budut-goret-i-vzryvatsja-takzhe-kak-pri-atake-geranej.html

It describes the reasons for the explosion of the electric transformer substation and my comments on it.

[Montezuma]

The remains of the Ukrainian energy system gradually "self-destruct".

The Russian Armed Forces are fully capable of dramatically accelerating the process if Kyiv continues to rave with maniacal persistence about its desire to defeat Russia.

[Vladimir Nizhegorodsky]

Good evening Ukrainians!!!!
Everything will be fine with you!!!
As soon as you put Zeliboba and company against the wall!!!
So why do you, pot heads, need electricity at all????
You can bang on pots without light

[Uncle lee]

Quote: Vladimir Nizhegorodsky

You can bang on pots without light

And jumping - even more so!

[GGV]

How sad: there will be no drug Fuhrer, there will be another Russophobe. And it is not the government that is to blame, it is the people. Until the pots themselves are removed, everything will be useless.

[Piramidon]

Quote: GGV

Until the pots are removed from themselves, everything will be useless.

They are no longer filmed. A generation of saucepan-headed mutants has grown up. After so many years of powerful anti-Russian propaganda, the saucepans have grown into their skulls and are one with the head.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Quote: Piramidon

The pots have grown into the skulls and are one with the head.

Yeah... Like the mutants with headcrabs on their heads in Half-Life.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Apparently, someone got inside and forgot to take the pan off. It shorted out a bit. Part of the embroidered shirt remained. It happens. No big deal.

[vovochkarzhevsky]

Guys, can anyone clearly explain what goals the Russian Federation plans to achieve as a result of the SVO?

[Maruk]

I see that you still haven't managed to grasp what denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine means. I'll explain it in plain language. The primary goal is the destruction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As soon as the Armed Forces of Ukraine ceases to exist, the current Ukrainian state, hostile to Russia, will cease to exist. And the next goal is the formation of a new Ukrainian state, headed by a government that will be at least neutral to Russia, which will recognize Crimea and its "new territories" as part of the Russian Federation.

[vovochkarzhevsky]

I see that you still haven’t managed to grasp what denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine means.

Forgive me, but as a military man, I really cannot handle your propaganda nonsense.
I am proceeding from military realities. And they are far from brilliant. The Russian army has not been able to even simply push the enemy out of the Kursk region for several months now. They are liberating, liberating, but they just won't liberate.
And in order to make Ukraine at least a neutral state, it needs to be occupied and not for one year, in order to reformat the consciousness of the population.
What forces can do this? Especially after these attacks on substations have made this population negatively disposed towards the Russian Federation.
Propagandists of the capitalist Russian Federation love to rattle off the cuff that Afghanistan was one of the reasons for the collapse of the USSR. But the sick do not realize that the analogies in this case are not good. Especially since Ukraine is not Afghanistan, and the Russian Federation is far from the USSR.

[Maruk]

Well, if you are a military man, you must understand that initially neither the Russian armed forces nor the state economy were ready for a war of such a scale and nature. Why? This is not a question for me. The SVO was essentially planned as a sudden and rapid offensive operation, as a result of which, in 3-4 weeks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were supposed to flee their positions, raise their hands and capitulate, and Medvedchuk and Co. would come to power in Ukraine. But something went wrong not so and then negotiations began in Istanbul, goodwill gestures on the withdrawal of troops (in reality we would have had to leave in any case, we would not have been able to cope with the logistics). But we were tricked again and a completely different war began, one for which our strategists in the General Staff, commanders of units and divisions were completely unprepared. The only consolation is that the commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and their NATO curators were also not ready for such a war. So we have to learn to fight at the bloody cost of losses and defeats. And in order to conduct a large-scale offensive operation and tip the scales of victory in our favor, we need powerful, well-trained, prepared and armed reserves with combat experience and at least half a million people, who must be concentrated as covertly as possible (which is practically unrealistic in modern warfare) on the section of the front where the offensive will take place. Do we have such a number of troops and equipment for a powerful breakthrough of the enemy's defense and its defeat? I think not. That's how we fight with "frog jumps".

[Alex Nevs]

You are not a military man anymore. Maybe you were once under Tsar Pea. Or only if now in the ranks with a minimum of military training.

[The Siberian barber]

I watched TV and read newspapers and at the Foreign Languages ​​Institute)
I am interested in the means of the declared goals.
For your understanding, I am completely "for"
But, the question “how” doesn’t come to mind.
Maybe you see these funds.
I would be grateful if you could enlighten me
With the military component, it’s more or less clear... but what next??

[Maruk]

No one will give you a simple answer to this question of yours. See my answer Stas157

[Stas157]

Quote: maruk

The primary goal is to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Destroying the enemy army and thus winning the war is only possible with a blitzkrieg. When the enemy has not yet managed to carry out a general mobilization. But in a war of attrition, this does not work.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are being replenished much faster than our offensive. We can continue to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces for a long time, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are constantly being replenished. And there is still something to replenish them with. And it will not end with just the Ukrainians.

Quote: maruk

Once The Armed Forces of Ukraine will cease to exist

And when will this happen your as soon as? You probably know at least an approximate time frame, since you have such a goal.

[Maruk]

Have I ever written anywhere that the destruction of the enemy army (Ukrainian Armed Forces) will happen quickly? I have never set any time frames. Yes, Putin's "blitzkrieg" failed and the Russian state is forced to wage a war of attrition with Ukraine, supported by Western countries. How long this war will last and what methods it will be waged in the future, no one can answer now. The famous German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz pointed out that the methods and ways of conducting military operations depend on the circumstances: "Depending on the circumstances, one can successfully use various suitable means, such as: the destruction of the enemy's combat forces, the conquest of his provinces, their simple occupation, any enterprise that influences political relations, and, finally, passively waiting for the enemy's attacks. The choice of each of the means depends on the circumstances of each given case." A war of attrition is essentially a battle of economies. Everything depends on how long and powerfully the West will support Ukraine in this war, to what extent the human (mobilization) resources of our opponents will be used and what their quality will be.

[Maruk]

Unfortunately no. See my answer to Stas157

[The collective farm is voluntary.]

You won't like it (and neither will I), but it looks like all that's needed is recognition of the LPR and DPR by Russia and guarantees of Ukraine's neutrality. There's no talk at all about Odessa and the right bank of the Dnieper. No talk about the corridor to Transnistria either.

[vovochkarzhevsky]

You won't like it (and neither will I), but it looks like all that's needed is Russian recognition of the LPR and DPR and guarantees of Ukraine's neutrality. There's no talk at all about Odessa and the right bank of the Dnieper. No talk about the corridor to Transnistria either.

Yes, that’s the point, after the “gesture of goodwill” in the Kiev direction, it became clear that the immediate interests of capital won out over the strategic interests of Russia.
One thing is curious: how will our authorities get out of this, since they have already included Kherson into the Russian Federation.
However, what am I saying? It is clear that they will do nothing and "meaningfully" remain silent.

[Alex Nevs]

Nobody turned on anything. There was a referendum.

[phrases]

Can anyone explain this clearly?

Only armchair experts can explain this clearly, repeating theses from TV. Nothing clear comes to mind for mere mortals.

[Bully]

If we believe the founders of Marxism, then under capitalism wars are waged for markets. In the times of neocapitalism, another reason appeared - energy resources

[vindigo]

Redistribution of spheres of influence. This war is similar to the internecine showdowns of princes in Ancient Rus'.

[The Siberian barber]

Clearly, they can explain "not only, only, everything"
As I understand it: once you get involved, you have to push until the end)
Based on observation, our "strategy" is in everything like in the game "Chapaev"))
"Let it be as it will be, and then we'll see"

[carpenter]

Quote: Hwostatij

And the fact that 750 and 330 kV substations operate quietly and provide transport and military production

These substations need to be hammered out, if they are gone, there will be no light.

[Comrade Beria]

Kurakhovskoye direction. Advancement of our troops in the pocket south of Kurakhovo, also our troops advanced along the forest belt and came close to Romanovka.

[Irek]

This is the legacy of the damned Soviet Union and must be destroyed, the humanoid creature screamed in boorish language.

[rocket757]

Moreover, it will take several days to restore the “transformers” (substations),

This is when there is something to change and there are those who can do it!
Foreigners will supply components, they will remove "unnecessary" ones from somewhere, options.

[Huarabey]

""Due to technical problems with Ukrtelecom equipment, air raid warnings on a number of streets in the Shevchenkivskyi, Solomenskyi and Svyatoshinskyi districts will be made via loudspeakers""

It turns out that their Internet has gone down or something? Somehow this all comes at an inopportune time against the backdrop of rumors about the continuation of the "nut" tests. Have they decided to hide the warning to Russia, if it suddenly follows, from the people?

[HAM]

And their "call centers" have also gone quiet; it's hard to fool Russians in the dark...

[TermNachTer]

Transformers have blown up before due to short circuits and overloads, so nothing out of the ordinary. Well, except for the fact that the distribution network apparently can't handle the loads.

[Yaro Polk]

These underdeveloped people...don't have a mechanical siren?)

[Yaro Polk]

Let Klitschko... personally pedal... as an athlete and mayor of the city... and not pedal for the camera on a million-dollar bike.

[Bully]

I believe that the qualifications of Ukrenergo's operational and technical personnel are not much different from those in Rosseti. Most likely, due to the lack of reserves in the distribution networks (or perhaps under administrative pressure), the automatic equipment overload limitation system was quickly disabled.

[Piramidon]

Quote: Bully

I believe that the qualifications of Ukrenergo's operational and technical personnel are not much different from those in Rosseti. Most likely, due to the lack of reserves in the distribution networks (or perhaps under administrative pressure), the automatic equipment overload limitation system was quickly disabled.

The Ukrenergo specialists were caught by the TCC specialists and sent to the Kursk region.

[spektr9]

This would be the case with logistics, but that's just a dream...

[The collective farm is voluntary.]

We are mistaken in believing that by preserving the civil infrastructure we are preserving the loyalty of a part of Ukrainian society.
There are practically no families left in Ukraine who have not lost loved ones and friends in this war; their hatred can no longer be changed.
Power plants and underground gas storage facilities can be destroyed in 2-3 waves of missile attacks and the country will rise. Will fall on its knees. And then - negotiate on your terms.
But our ochkozaurs are very afraid to do this, allowing the khokhols to repair equipment and assemble drones. They are afraid of frozen Ukrainian old women, but they are not afraid of our dead boys.

[Yuri L]

The hatred of the Germans for the Russians and the Japanese for the Americans in April 1945 and July 1945 was simply boundless. But only a few months passed, and by September 1945 there arose an unbridled love for the Russians and Americans (especially women). The selfless love of the Germans and Japanese for the same Americans continues to this day. What happened in these few months???

[Petr_Koldunov]

It will take several days to restore the "transformers" (substations), Kyiv authorities report.

Why is it subject to restoration at all?! Especially in just "a few days"???

[Sergey Prutkov55]

We must force them to capitulate by any means necessary.

[Yuri L]

It's kind of strange, the transformers are self-destructing, but the light is still on. When will we finally see a dark city?

[certero]

Ukraine inherited 77 gigawatts of generating capacity from the Soviet Union. During the process of independence, it was reduced to 55 gigawatts.
However, Ukraine's consumption has never exceeded 20 Gigawatts. That's exactly how many nuclear power plants there are in Ukraine. Which will definitely not be targets for attack.
Need I explain further? Russia simply cannot reduce electricity production in Ukraine to the point where it becomes insufficient.
Hence, all these stories about attacks on the energy structure are simply a money grab.
This has absolutely no effect on combat operations.
At all times, the first thing attacked was the enemy's logistics, railway stations, communication routes, bridges, and so on.
In 3 years of war, all the bridges could have been destroyed