Kiev Is Burning

[Roman Alymov]

14 minutes ago, johnthejock said:

The authors, I meant, Tambov was one of the areas in the past which was something which was not discussed, it was a taboo. I am aware of the nostalgia for Imperial society, its interesting and its the same the world over, looking back to a golden age which never, ever really existed.

May be in Soviet time (intill mid-1980th), but then it was not only revealed but highlighted as sign of "Real Russia was trying to defend itself from this evil Communism brought from outside" (which is obviously not true - revolutions are rare to happen in paradises).

By the way new memorial to 100yrs of Kronshtadt uprising (for both sides) - opened Dec, 2021

 

[bd1]

1 hour ago, Roman Alymov said:

 

Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians have also repeatedly used chemical projectiles, although such cases, rarely found in the literature, are devoid of details. Operational reports of the Reds from Narva on February 25 , 1919 noted: "The use of chemical and high-explosive shells by the enemy has been established."

I

when i finally used my brain and googled ´chemical weapons´, instead ´gas weapons´, i found 

Gas shells were used on Viru Front final battles 19.th nov 1919 till armistice in 3.rd january 1920.

20th oct. estonians shot 70 gas shells towards soviets. reportedly first and last time est. side used chemical weapons.

19th. november red army shot gas shells at estonian 9th polk positions at Dubrovka and Soldino

 

[seahawk]

1 hour ago, Strannik said:

 

 

Increasing indication that the Ukraine is close to collapse. I think one more push in early winter will break their back and Russian troops will reach the Polish border by Christmas.

[Huba]

Just now, seahawk said:

Increasing indication that the Ukraine is close to collapse. I think one more push in early winter will break their back and Russian troops will reach the Polish border by Christmas.

Perhaps even Warsaw or Berlin again...

Seriously though, does anybody recall a war when "home by Christmas" was promised and actually happened? Honest question.

[Roman Alymov]

4 minutes ago, seahawk said:

Increasing indication that the Ukraine is close to collapse. I think one more push in early winter will break their back and Russian troops will reach the Polish border by Christmas.

I think thete is no reason to expect "Ukraine collapse"  -the "West" will do everything possible to make war going on to last Ukrainian, including if needed mobilisation of refugees from Ukraine who are now in Europe, moving Polish troops to Western Ukraine to replace Ukr Army onits who are now there (and will be sent to Eastern front), sending PMCs etc. The only question is where the contact line will be.

[Huba]

56 minutes ago, Junior FO said:

In this context, the existance of NATO is the problem,

Only if you assume EU army/ military integration is the goal in itself - then yes, NATO stands in the way. IMO from perspective of smaller/ poorer countries NATO is a perfect framework, as it allows balancing US and "Old Europe" interests and not being completely dominated by one of them. The Polish proverb says that your POV depend on your point of sitting

[Roman Alymov]

18 hours ago, bojan said:

...M777 is in not significantly more "accurate" than any other 152/155mm around, and might be even less "accurate" than some as barrel profile is pretty thin, that might lead to a problems with barrel drop, vibrations etc. Don't forget that primary reason for it's existence was low weight, other than that it did not bring anything over M198.

Pro-Russians describe M777 fire as more accurate then other systems  - but quite possible it is not because of gun itself, but because of best crews chosen to man them, better initail data for fire solution, better intelligence provided for M777 batterys, ammunition stored in better conditions etc. 

[johnthejock]

13 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

May be in Soviet time (intill mid-1980th), but then it was not only revealed but highlighted as sign of "Real Russia was trying to defend itself from this evil Communism brought from outside" (which is obviously not true - revolutions are rare to happen in paradises).

By the way new memorial to 100yrs of Kronshtadt uprising (for both sides) - opened Dec, 2021

 

Very interesting thanks for that. 

"Real Russia was trying to defend itself from this evil Communism brought from outside" 

There is a lot of truth in that as in true Marxian ideology the Russian Empire was not thought of as in the correct period for a revolution, the UK and Germany were thought to be the most likely options for this due to their stage of economic development. 

Its interesting to see the statue, to your knowledge is there anything similar in Tambov or elsewhere in memory to the Greens or the Blacks?

[johnthejock]

11 minutes ago, seahawk said:

Increasing indication that the Ukraine is close to collapse. I think one more push in early winter will break their back and Russian troops will reach the Polish border by Christmas.

And then a second miracle on the Vistula?

[Yama]

3 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

My reading is admittedly far from exhaustive, but I have to say, as someone who recently read up a fair on the V1 attacks, this is complete news to me.

More to the point, im not aware of any way in which we could have done it that would not have invited similar German attacks using bombers. Indeed, it might have been the last strategic effect they would have wrung out of that declining and increasingly ineffectual force.

It is mentioned in Wikipedia, though there it sounds Churchill was just looking for a pretense:

"Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, issued a memorandum advocating a chemical strike on German cities using poison gas and possibly anthrax. Although the idea was rejected, it has provoked debate.[86] In July 1944, fearing that rocket attacks on London would get even worse, and saying he would only use chemical weapons if it were "life or death for us" or would "shorten the war by a year",[87] Churchill wrote a secret memorandum asking his military chiefs to "think very seriously over this question of using poison gas." He stated "it is absurd to consider morality on this topic when everybody used it in the last war without a word of complaint..."

The Joint Planning Staff, however, advised against the use of gas because it would inevitably provoke Germany to retaliate with gas. They argued that this would be to the Allies' disadvantage in France both for military reasons and because it might "seriously impair our relations with the civilian population when it became generally known that chemical warfare was first employed by us."

Curiously this debate was mirrored in Germany, where Hitler inquired use of Tabun on the battlefield and was adviced against it.

Britain did not give up chemical weapons (the protocols only banned the use, not research or manufacture), as evidenced by Rawalpindi studies. But as noted, this was hardly unheard in the rest of the world either (Unit 731... ) and cannot be judged by modern sensibilities.

[RETAC21]

1 hour ago, Junior FO said:

In this context, the existance of NATO is the problem, it slows down or prevents the organic development of such "federal" units/capabilities and working out the political parameters of it's use. Cost pressure and technological evolution means the current attempts of everybody to do everything will break down sooner rather than later. Everybody subsidising the US with the US ulitmately retaining both sole control and reaping the financial/R&D/strategic benefits suits it very well, but screws over any EU potential.

 

No, it's not and no, everyone is not attempting to do everything, nor does the US retain sole control (or control for that matter) and in fact you have the whole construct upside down. Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, etc. couldn't have gone off with minimal forces without NATO (not to speak about the Baltic countries...) without the Russians reimposing their leash after 2000 (as we have seen with Ukraine which started out from a much stronger position than any of these). The EU doesn't potential not because the US is an evil puppet master but because it's composed of independent nations with diverging interests.

[seahawk]

28 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

I think thete is no reason to expect "Ukraine collapse"  -the "West" will do everything possible to make war going on to last Ukrainian, including if needed mobilisation of refugees from Ukraine who are now in Europe, moving Polish troops to Western Ukraine to replace Ukr Army onits who are now there (and will be sent to Eastern front), sending PMCs etc. The only question is where the contact line will be.

True, if you look at the "volunteers" on the separatist side.

[Der Zeitgeist]

1 hour ago, Mistral said:

Reading this thread reminds of the time I was working in the card fraud dep of a bank.  There, you saw the true level of human intellect and analytical skills. It was not encouraging.

But it's very entertaining! 

[RETAC21]

1 hour ago, Mistral said:

So, Russians tanks at the Polish border by Sunday evening.  Else, Russians are worse than Iraqis in warfare.

Reading this thread reminds of the time I was working in the card fraud dep of a bank.  There, you saw the true level of human intellect and analytical skills. It was not encouraging.

Well, numbers are not unexpected in a high intensity war that has gone on for 5 months, and that's why the front is kind of stalemated now. Of course, it's missing the number of mobilised personnel and how many of those losses are "irrecoverable" vs lightly wounded and sent back to the front.

And if the Russians haven't broken through easily that means their units are in a similar dismal state, which evidence points they are.

Numbers, the higher form of deceit.

[Roman Alymov]

32 minutes ago, johnthejock said:

Its interesting to see the statue, to your knowledge is there anything similar in Tambov or elsewhere in memory to the Greens or the Blacks?

I'm affraid in our days people here mostly do not go into such a detail of Civil War-XX to see it as multi-side event, and it is mostly seen as "Red vs White", resulting in modern monuments showing it as "two sides - one nation"

New monument in Sevastopol, Crimea

Note the theme of White officer and horse used - not only in this memorial but also on one in Novorossiysk 

is quote from Soviet movie (dated 1968), as since about 1970th Soviet art was sort of not so "Red" but "One nation", with best actors playing "White" characters etc.

 

[Strannik]

59 minutes ago, johnthejock said:

And then a second miracle on the Vistula?

Narratives like these provide stramen like "we will be in Kiev in three days".  Then the same actors saddle the horses and attack them 😅 

And in any case there is no point for RU to take the whole UA to be saddled with hostile population and the rebuild.

A landlocked right-of-Dnepr rump costing dear penny to the curators will be more of the end target methinks.    

Edited August 5, 2022 by Strannik

[johnthejock]

17 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

I'm affraid in our days people here mostly do not go into such a detail of Civil War-XX to see it as multi-side event, and it is mostly seen as "Red vs White", resulting in modern monuments showing it as "two sides - one nation"

New monument in Sevastopol, Crimea

Note the theme of White officer and horse used - not only in this memorial but also on one in Novorossiysk 

is quote from Soviet movie (dated 1968), as since about 1970th Soviet art was sort of not so "Red" but "One nation", with best actors playing "White" characters etc.

 

Really interesting, thank you.  Why I asked was that there had been a monument in Tambov but had been destroyed/ damaged several times.

[glenn239]

3 hours ago, Mistral said:

So, Russians tanks at the Polish border by Sunday evening.  Else, Russians are worse than Iraqis in warfare.

The Ukrainians have mobilized many hundreds of thousands of men, so if the report is correct and they've lost 200,000 so far, this does not mean that they don't have the half trained replacements to throw into the line.

[Roman Alymov]

1 hour ago, johnthejock said:

Really interesting, thank you.  Why I asked was that there had been a monument in Tambov but had been destroyed/ damaged several times.

Well, this monument was de-facto replaced by another one  (Yandex-translated from https://karta.psmb.ru/karta/articlesingle/pamjat-ob-antonovskom-vosstanii-v-tambove/ )

The memory of the Antonov uprising in Tambov.

"It was the last peasant war in Russia," Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote, "but the Tambov persistent uprising showed that the Russian peasantry did not give up without a fight."

It began with the actions of A.S. Antonov's partisan detachment in 1918, therefore it is sometimes called by his name "Antonovshchina", this, of course, in the Soviet vocabulary. Driven to despair by predatory prodrazverstki, residents of Tambov region in 1920 raised an anti-Soviet uprising and overthrew the new government in many settlements of the province.

By order of Lenin, his suppression by the Red Army, special detachments of the VOHR and CHON lasted for two years. Blood flowed like a river, especially V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko (the party pseudonym Bayonet), and M.N. Tukhachevsky, who used chemical weapons against the already almost defeated Tambov residents, contributed to this. G.I. Kotovsky, I. P. Uborevich N. E. Kakurin were also noted in the red ranks in the Tambov region, G. G. Yagoda and V. V. Ulrich were sent there from the CHEKA. By the summer of 1022, it was completely suppressed, A.S. Antonov was tracked down by the chekists and died in a shootout.

As a result of the actions of the occupation and punitive army and the Cheka in the Tambov region, at least 110 thousand people were killed only according to Soviet data. Many analysts call the figure at 240 thousand people.

This is how it was reflected in the surviving documents of that time. Uborevich reported to Tukhachevsky: "1,000 people were captured, 1,000 were shot," then "500 people were captured, all 500 were shot." And how many such documents were destroyed? And how many such shootings were not reflected in the documents at all?

Or here is another quote from the document: "... In order to improve the village, the families of the hostages who were shot, as well as the hiding bandits, were seized and sent to concentration camps."

And after the defeat of the uprising, the so-called "cleansing" took place, which again was expressed in mass shootings and in the creation of concentration camps on the territory of the province. A large number of Tambov villages and villages were wiped off the face of the earth following the results of "sweeps" (as punishment for supporting "bandits").

It is striking that they even publicly called themselves occupiers, and the Tambov province, the land of the native Russian, was considered as a territory occupied by the Red Army. Tukhachevsky wrote: "... military actions to carry out the occupation method of fighting against bandits"; "we usually call this period of struggle occupation." (Tukhachevsky M.N. "The struggle against counter-revolutionary uprisings")

The persecution for belonging to the Antonov movement continued for many more years. They broke out with renewed vigor in the 1930s, when the tortured Tambov peasantry resisted collectivization.

For more than 70 years, the concept of this uprising as a Kulak-Socialist-Revolutionary bandit rebellion has been established in the minds of Soviet citizens. And therefore, even from the descendants of the rebellious peasants of the beginning of the century, few people today want to remember their ancestors. But not all of them.

In 1999, a memorial plaque in the meaning of a foundation stone appeared under the walls of the Kazan Monastery – the burial place of A.S. Antonov (a conditional place). There was also a hope that there would be a monument here to all those who fell in the Antonov uprising. But less than a month later, she disappeared.

Then the residents of Tambov and the region threw a cry and collected a penny for a monument to the fighters against the Bolshevik regime. The late famous ophthalmologist academician Svyatoslav Fedorov also provided great help. He also established the anniversary sign "Alexander Antonov. In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the peasant uprising in the Tambov province."

The monument was opened on June 24, 2000 on the day of Antonov's death at the same place near the wall of the Kazan Monastery. It was erected with the permission of the local authorities and consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church. On it, defiantly for those who did not want such a memory, the words of Alexander Antonov were stamped out: "We have to fight for a just cause, brothers, only ourselves. Fight honestly, bravely and bravely – in the name of Faith, Motherland and Truth." After standing for about a year, at night on May 1, 2001, this monument was stolen.

The next option was a stone with a promise inscribed on it that a monument to the victims of the people's peasant uprising led by Alexander Stepanovich Antonov would still stand at this place. It cannot be called anything other than a testimony of faith that the truth will still prevail. But ... and he was taken away, now by the authorities, at the end of 2010, because a swastika suddenly appeared on him, which could not be erased on the spot. Of course, with the promise to wash and return. But the stone is still there – abandoned on the territory of one of the municipal enterprises.

But on the other hand, two blocks from this place on Kronshtadskaya Square (Sochi Park) in 2007, a three-meter concrete "Tambov man" grew up (better translated as "Tambov peasant" - RA). This place is also not indifferent to the tragedy of the early 20s - there was a branch of one of the concentration camps to which the families of the participants of the Antonov uprising were exiled.

The "man" tramples with his plow a machine-gun belt, a banner "All power to the Soviets", a saber, a three-line. He looks like he's going to make the sign of the cross. According to the author, sculptor Viktor Ostrikov, for the agrarian Tambov region, a "peasant" is, first of all, a worker, a guardian of the faith of fathers and grandfathers, standing above ideology and politics, and for him the main thing is to plow the land. But for A.S. Antonov and his associates, such a task is too narrow, there are appeals in his poems, for which, without a doubt, one could give one's life: "For Faith, Motherland, Freedom and Truth!". A political platform was also thought out – under the leadership of Lieutenant Pyotr Tokmakov, a cavalier of St. George, also from peasants, a Union of working Peasants was created, after the overthrow of the Bolshevik dictatorship, it was supposed to convene a Constituent Assembly, restore political and economic freedoms. So this "Man" is only a palliative, unable to convey the whole truth and nourish the memory of the sorrowful and heroic time of the struggle against the godless and bloody Bolshevik government. But it was also desecrated in 2008 – the face of the "Man" was mutilated. Therefore, a bronze "vandal-proof" version of it was urgently manufactured and installed in 2008.

However, on the territory of the Kazan monastery there is a chapel in memory of the victims of the mass shootings in Tambov, and, thank God, no one attempts on it.

However, memory is an invisible property of the heart, as is prayer for all those who died in the fratricidal war. And it is impossible without repentance for everything that happened in Russia in the twentieth century. Without love for the motherland and knowledge of the whole truth about it, we risk falling into the bad wheel of history. And it is gaining momentum…

Tatiana Avilova 2014

 

By the way my grand grandmother have seen Nestor Makhno himself - unfortunatelly i was too young to be interested in this story when she was still alive... Will ask my mother, may be she knows more.

Edited August 5, 2022 by Roman Alymov

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[johnthejock]

25 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

Well, this monument was de-facto replaced by another one  (Yandex-translated from https://karta.psmb.ru/karta/articlesingle/pamjat-ob-antonovskom-vosstanii-v-tambove/ )

The memory of the Antonov uprising in Tambov.

"It was the last peasant war in Russia," Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote, "but the Tambov persistent uprising showed that the Russian peasantry did not give up without a fight."

It began with the actions of A.S. Antonov's partisan detachment in 1918, therefore it is sometimes called by his name "Antonovshchina", this, of course, in the Soviet vocabulary. Driven to despair by predatory prodrazverstki, residents of Tambov region in 1920 raised an anti-Soviet uprising and overthrew the new government in many settlements of the province.

By order of Lenin, his suppression by the Red Army, special detachments of the VOHR and CHON lasted for two years. Blood flowed like a river, especially V.A. Antonov-Ovseenko (the party pseudonym Bayonet), and M.N. Tukhachevsky, who used chemical weapons against the already almost defeated Tambov residents, contributed to this. G.I. Kotovsky, I. P. Uborevich N. E. Kakurin were also noted in the red ranks in the Tambov region, G. G. Yagoda and V. V. Ulrich were sent there from the CHEKA. By the summer of 1022, it was completely suppressed, A.S. Antonov was tracked down by the chekists and died in a shootout.

As a result of the actions of the occupation and punitive army and the Cheka in the Tambov region, at least 110 thousand people were killed only according to Soviet data. Many analysts call the figure at 240 thousand people.

This is how it was reflected in the surviving documents of that time. Uborevich reported to Tukhachevsky: "1,000 people were captured, 1,000 were shot," then "500 people were captured, all 500 were shot." And how many such documents were destroyed? And how many such shootings were not reflected in the documents at all?

Or here is another quote from the document: "... In order to improve the village, the families of the hostages who were shot, as well as the hiding bandits, were seized and sent to concentration camps."

And after the defeat of the uprising, the so-called "cleansing" took place, which again was expressed in mass shootings and in the creation of concentration camps on the territory of the province. A large number of Tambov villages and villages were wiped off the face of the earth following the results of "sweeps" (as punishment for supporting "bandits").

It is striking that they even publicly called themselves occupiers, and the Tambov province, the land of the native Russian, was considered as a territory occupied by the Red Army. Tukhachevsky wrote: "... military actions to carry out the occupation method of fighting against bandits"; "we usually call this period of struggle occupation." (Tukhachevsky M.N. "The struggle against counter-revolutionary uprisings")

The persecution for belonging to the Antonov movement continued for many more years. They broke out with renewed vigor in the 1930s, when the tortured Tambov peasantry resisted collectivization.

For more than 70 years, the concept of this uprising as a Kulak-Socialist-Revolutionary bandit rebellion has been established in the minds of Soviet citizens. And therefore, even from the descendants of the rebellious peasants of the beginning of the century, few people today want to remember their ancestors. But not all of them.

In 1999, a memorial plaque in the meaning of a foundation stone appeared under the walls of the Kazan Monastery – the burial place of A.S. Antonov (a conditional place). There was also a hope that there would be a monument here to all those who fell in the Antonov uprising. But less than a month later, she disappeared.

Then the residents of Tambov and the region threw a cry and collected a penny for a monument to the fighters against the Bolshevik regime. The late famous ophthalmologist academician Svyatoslav Fedorov also provided great help. He also established the anniversary sign "Alexander Antonov. In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the peasant uprising in the Tambov province."

The monument was opened on June 24, 2000 on the day of Antonov's death at the same place near the wall of the Kazan Monastery. It was erected with the permission of the local authorities and consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church. On it, defiantly for those who did not want such a memory, the words of Alexander Antonov were stamped out: "We have to fight for a just cause, brothers, only ourselves. Fight honestly, bravely and bravely – in the name of Faith, Motherland and Truth." After standing for about a year, at night on May 1, 2001, this monument was stolen.

The next option was a stone with a promise inscribed on it that a monument to the victims of the people's peasant uprising led by Alexander Stepanovich Antonov would still stand at this place. It cannot be called anything other than a testimony of faith that the truth will still prevail. But ... and he was taken away, now by the authorities, at the end of 2010, because a swastika suddenly appeared on him, which could not be erased on the spot. Of course, with the promise to wash and return. But the stone is still there – abandoned on the territory of one of the municipal enterprises.

But on the other hand, two blocks from this place on Kronshtadskaya Square (Sochi Park) in 2007, a three-meter concrete "Tambov man" grew up (better translated as "Tambov peasant" - RA). This place is also not indifferent to the tragedy of the early 20s - there was a branch of one of the concentration camps to which the families of the participants of the Antonov uprising were exiled.

The "man" tramples with his plow a machine-gun belt, a banner "All power to the Soviets", a saber, a three-line. He looks like he's going to make the sign of the cross. According to the author, sculptor Viktor Ostrikov, for the agrarian Tambov region, a "peasant" is, first of all, a worker, a guardian of the faith of fathers and grandfathers, standing above ideology and politics, and for him the main thing is to plow the land. But for A.S. Antonov and his associates, such a task is too narrow, there are appeals in his poems, for which, without a doubt, one could give one's life: "For Faith, Motherland, Freedom and Truth!". A political platform was also thought out – under the leadership of Lieutenant Pyotr Tokmakov, a cavalier of St. George, also from peasants, a Union of working Peasants was created, after the overthrow of the Bolshevik dictatorship, it was supposed to convene a Constituent Assembly, restore political and economic freedoms. So this "Man" is only a palliative, unable to convey the whole truth and nourish the memory of the sorrowful and heroic time of the struggle against the godless and bloody Bolshevik government. But it was also desecrated in 2008 – the face of the "Man" was mutilated. Therefore, a bronze "vandal-proof" version of it was urgently manufactured and installed in 2008.

However, on the territory of the Kazan monastery there is a chapel in memory of the victims of the mass shootings in Tambov, and, thank God, no one attempts on it.

However, memory is an invisible property of the heart, as is prayer for all those who died in the fratricidal war. And it is impossible without repentance for everything that happened in Russia in the twentieth century. Without love for the motherland and knowledge of the whole truth about it, we risk falling into the bad wheel of history. And it is gaining momentum…

Tatiana Avilova 2014

 

By the way my grand grandmother have seen Nestor Makhno himself - unfortunatelly i was too young to be interested in this story when she was still alive... Will ask my mother, may be she knows more.

thank you much appreciated

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

If it is Vasily Bykov, I guess the Tor on the helo deck didn't work out...

[Yama]

Is this second or third time Bykov is reported destroyed?

[Roman Alymov]

On 7/26/2022 at 10:54 PM, Roman Alymov said:

Zaporizhzhia NPP is still operating as part of electric power grid of Ukraine - controlled by Kiev operators and pumping energy to pro-Ukrainian facilities de-facto for free (prowiding about 20% of all electricity of Ukraine). Why it is possible? I think there is some shadow deal that pro-Ukrainians do not destroy the stations (it is quite easy to do  - it is well within reach of regular artillery from opposite side of the Dniper water reservoir) in exchange for "Appeasement of the West" party in Russia continue to supply them with energy. Russian engeneers have restored power line between Crimea and mainland Ukraine (blown by pro-Ukrainians in 2015 as part of energy blockade) so seems like Russia is preparing to enevitable situation when this deal will collapse and all the energy to liberated part of south Ukraine will be coming from/via Crimea from stations in Russia.

Thermal power plants are also mostly operating as they are taking natural gas from transit pipe from Russia to Europe (only one of the pipelines was stopped by pro-Ukrainians as they have lost control over gas measurement station). Appeasement party still hope to appease.

Well, i have predicted this

On August 5, 2022, between 16.20 and 17.24, Ukrainian armed formations carried out three artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and Energidar city. A total of twenty 152-mm shells were fired.

▫️The shelling was carried out by one of the units of the 45th AFU Artillery Brigade from firing positions near Marganets, on the opposite bank of the Kremenchuk reservoir controlled by the Ukrainian army.

▫️As a result of the shelling, Energodar city is partially without electricity and water supply, part of the equipment of power unit No. 3 is de-energized at the NPP, and the generating capacity of power unit No. 4 is reduced. In addition, hydrogen pipeline was damaged, resulting in a hydrogen flare ignition at the hydrogen plant. The fire was quickly extinguished by the emergency services.

▫️Fortunately, the Ukrainian shells did not hit the oil and fuel facility and the oxygen plant nearby, thus avoiding a larger fire and a possible radiation accident at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.