Mayor Sienkevych: «CHPP will not resume power generation by the end of the season. Everything is destroyed there»
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- Alina Kvitko
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14:12, 17 February, 2025
Attack on Mykolaiv CHPP: resumption of power generation is impossible this heating season. Photo: Mykolaivska TPPMykolaiv CHPP will not be able to restore the power generation destroyed during the last drone attack by the end of this heating season.
This was stated by Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych in a live broadcast.
According to him, attacks on Mykolaiv's energy infrastructure occur regularly — once every month or two. However, the latest attack on the CHP plant was the largest infrastructure destruction in recent times.
The damage was so severe that experts do not even undertake to assess the possibility of reconstruction.
«This happens once a month, once every two months. The latest arrival at the CHPP was probably the biggest such infrastructure disruption in recent times. In fact, the destroyed generation facilities are definitely not subject to restoration, at least for this heating season, 100%. No one is undertaking to do it now because everything is destroyed,» he said.
Shelling of Mykolaiv on 16 February: what is known
On 16 February, at 0:50, the first explosion occurred in Mykolaiv. Later it became known that the city was under attack by drones. By 1:42 a.m., six more explosions had occurred in Mykolaiv.
In the morning, the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim, said that the strike had damaged critical infrastructure and apartment buildings. At least four shops, a catering facility, and office premises were also damaged.
Later, it became known that as a result of the nighttime Russian shelling , some residents of the city were left without heat supply.
According to the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, work is currently underway to assess the damage and restore heat supply. Currently, 46,000 customers are without heat supply.
Later, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that more than one hundred thousand people in Mykolaiv were left without heating as a result of a strike by Russian Shahed.