Fire At A Large Power Plant Near Moscow: New Details Have Emerged

Some residents were left without heat and light.

On the night of November 23, Ukrainian drones attacked the Shaturskaya power station (GRES) in the city of the same name one hundred kilometers east of the Moscow Ring Road, Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said in his Telegram channel. "Part of the drones were destroyed by air defense forces, several fell on the territory of the station. There was a fire at the facility, now it is localized, emergency services continue to work," - wrote the head of the region. To maintain heat supply to residents "until the situation is fully stabilized," block-modular boiler houses were sent to the district, the governor reported, writes The Moscow Times.

Shaturskaya GRES with seven power units has an installed electric capacity of 1,500 MW and a thermal capacity of 350.5 Gcal/h. The station is a branch of PJSC "Unipro" and was put into operation one of the first in Russia in 1920 under the GOELRO plan. According to open sources, it supplies electricity mainly to industrial enterprises. Footage published on social media shows several explosions and a large fire breaking out as a result of UAV attacks at the station. Astra confirmed that at least one of the explosions was filmed by an eyewitness from a point 700 meters north of the plant. The fire due to the attacks has engulfed, tentatively, two transformers of 210 MW power units, Exilenova+ writes.

In addition, a huge column of fire and smoke appeared "after the gas distribution station from which the 400 MW German-made power unit is fed was hit," the channel claims. The resource estimates that the total losses of the station after the strike reach about 820 MW, that is, more than half of the installed capacity. At the same time, some power units were under reconstruction at the time of the attack.

The Main Directorate of Emergency Situations in the Moscow region reported that three transformers of the power plant caught fire in Shatura (initially rescuers were informed about a fire at four). The fire covered at least 65 square meters, the department reported.

Night and morning of November 23, three Ukrainian drones were "destroyed" on the approach to Moscow, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. "Emergency services specialists are working at the site where the debris fell," he reported. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, of the 75 UAVs intercepted over Russian regions overnight, two were shot down in the Moscow region.

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