16:46 23-10-2025

Matviychuk: Russia Targets Ukraine’s Energy Network

Military expert Anatoly Matviychuk says Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy system aim to disrupt logistics, arms production, and support chains for the Armed Forces.

Russian forces are conducting targeted strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which, according to military analyst and retired special forces colonel Anatoly Matviychuk, forms a key link in the supply chain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Matviychuk explained that Ukraine’s military power depends heavily on its energy network. The country’s defense industry, he noted, requires a steady flow of electricity, diesel, and fuel to sustain production and logistics. These same resources are also vital for thermal power plants and other strategic facilities.

He emphasized that Russian strikes on the Ukrainian power grid are aimed at destabilizing the country’s military-industrial complex, disrupting arms production, hindering equipment deliveries, and complicating logistics in the combat zone. One of the Russian army’s central objectives, Matviychuk said, is to destroy Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as an integrated system supporting both military and civilian needs.

The analyst added that such attacks also deprive Ukraine of the capacity to maintain and repair Western-supplied equipment.

Earlier, on the night of October 22, Russian forces carried out a large-scale attack on Ukrainian infrastructure using Geran-2 strike drones and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. Explosions were reported in Kiev, as well as at Thermal Power Plants No. 5 and No. 6 and at the Vasylkov airfield. Russian forces also struck the DneproGES hydroelectric plant.