Drone / missile attack
Power Station
DTEK thermal power plant — repeated Russian strikes halt generation
8 September 2026 · Plant halted
Ukraine (plant location withheld for security)
Map
49.0000, 32.5000
What happened
DTEK said Russian forces launched several waves of attacks against one of its thermal power plants on 8 September, severely damaging equipment and forcing the facility to stop generating electricity. The company withheld the plant's identity and location for operational security and reported no casualties. Contemporary regional reporting linked power cuts in parts of Mykolaiv region, including Mykolaiv city, to an attack on energy infrastructure, but the reviewed sources do not establish that the unnamed DTEK plant caused those outages. This is a separate September event from the unnamed DTEK thermal plant struck and halted on 18 August.
When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Power Station
- Weather context
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- Latitude
- 49.0000°
- Longitude
- 32.5000°
Attribution
Attributed to Russia🇷🇺
Sources
- Russian forces attack DTEK thermal power plant, station halts electricity generationUkrinform, citing DTEK · Incident reporting
- DTEK plant stops generating after Russian attackDTEK Group · Primary operator statement confirming repeated attack waves, significant equipment damage, complete loss of generation and no injuries; the plant location and capacity remain withheld.
- DTEK thermal power plant stops generating electricity after Russian attacksUkrainska Pravda, citing DTEK · Independent publication of the operator's account and confirmation that the plant identity was withheld.