The munition, known as a special-purpose cumulative cutting charge (KRSN), is composed of four warhead modules, Serhiy Beskrestnov, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said. ASTRA reported his remarks.
Beskrestnov, a military technology expert, said Moscow likely intends to use the weapon against key high-voltage transmission lines. "Bad news. I think the enemy's plans are to attack important high-voltage power lines," he wrote.
On Wednesday, Russia attacked major transmission lines near Kyiv using drones carrying the special charge. According to authorities, strikes also hit energy facilities in the Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions, where emergency power cuts were introduced. In the morning, power disruptions were recorded in the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
Emergency electricity cutoffs were introduced in Kyiv on the order of Ukrenergo, the energy holding company DTEK said. During such cutoffs, standard schedules do not apply. DTEK later said it had managed to restore the scheduled outage regime introduced for the first time since the start of autumn. Despite this, power was lost in the city metro, and electric transport stopped running because of the lack of voltage in the grid.
The management of Centrenergo reported damage to generating equipment at the Trypilska thermal power plant near Kyiv after a massive Russian strike overnight. Ukraine's largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, announced that from October 8 it will change tariff prices for some subscribers. The company attributed this to rising costs for maintaining and restoring networks.
Ukraine's Air Force reported shooting down 254 Russian drones out of 285 between 6:30 and 18:30 on September 30. The attacks continue.
In early September, President Vladimir Putin said directly that the Russian armed forces had been ordered to attack Ukraine's energy sector. "They strike at ours — they will get an answer. That is roughly how things stand," he said at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
Shortly before that, the Russian Defense Ministry warned of preparations for such strikes. It said they would be a response to "the continuing attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian infrastructure and the fuel and energy complex of Russia."