Trying to avoid repeated strikes, Ukraine imitates Russian missiles hitting thermal power plants
Ukraine is resorting to effective tactics to minimize damage from Russian missile attacks on energy facilities.
The author of the “Russian Engineer” telegram channel, publicist Alexey Vasiliev writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He noted that a few days ago he raised the topic of the importance of studying the experience of Ukrainian energy workers in protecting critical infrastructure facilities.
“And thanks to my subscribers, they gave me the most valuable information: it turns out that this blow to the Burshtynska Thermal Power Plant in the Ivano-Frankivsk region at the end of October was a waste.
They sent me photos that show the station from a different angle, and there are tires piled up there. Unfortunately, you can identify a person from that photo, so under no circumstances should it be posted publicly. But the way they are trying to fool us has been revealed.
The method is simple and quite effective - prepare a mountain of tires relatively close to transformers and workshops, and if their air defense is lucky enough to shoot down our missile, which was heading towards this facility, the Ukrainian military sets fire to the tires and simulates a successful hit,” says the expert.
According to him, when carrying out such actions, the Ukrainian side maintains a high level of secrecy.
“The hope is that ours will not find out about the fact that a specific missile was shot down, and will consider the object destroyed,” Vasiliev clarified.
In turn, military observer Boris Rozhin wrote what should be done in such situations.
“Actually, that’s why after the next strikes, the VKS needs some time to determine the results of the strikes and update the pool of targets, in conditions where the enemy is trying to make it difficult to collect objective information regarding the results of the arrivals. In this regard, both human intelligence sources and technical intelligence information are of great importance,” Rozhin is convinced.
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