Russia tried rewiring Zaporizhzhia NPP. Ukrainian drones disagreed
Stealing Europe's largest atomic plant is bold enough, but stringing a giant extension cord straight to Russia is quite tricky when kamikaze drones control the sky.
Satellite imagery analyzed by Greenpeace just revealed what Rosatom has been sweating over for the past several months: a brand-new high-voltage transmission line cutting across occupied southern Ukraine, from Melitopol down to Henichesk along the M18 highway.
The plan was brazenly simple. Instead of spending billions to build actual power stations in southern Russia, Moscow decided to pirate the captured nuclear plant, feed its military logistics, power occupied Crimea, and ship the leftover juice home.
The entire multi-million-dollar transmission corridor was practically finished in May, right until Ukrainian drones repeatedly struck the crucial substation in Henichesk and turned the scheme to scrap.
Meanwhile, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi keeps floating polite notions about potentially restarting reactors under Russian supervision, neatly ignoring the fact that armed hijacking of an atomic station makes routine grid integration an impossible fantasy.
Stretching an exposed high-voltage cable across an active warzone to siphon stolen nuclear megawatts might just be the absolute peak of Russian engineering optimism.
Source: Greenpeace Україна
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