Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal has presented European partners in Paris with a document described by Kyiv as an intercepted Russian plan for a methodical winter campaign against Ukraine’s energy system, according to reports. The presentation outlines what Ukrainian officials describe as a coordinated effort directed at the country’s power and heating infrastructure as winter approaches.
According to the Ukrainian-presented assessment, the plan outlines up to 1,000 missiles, drones and guided bombs to be used against electrical substations, hydroelectric power plants and thermal power plants. The document also lists boiler houses and water infrastructure among the systems described, according to reports on the briefing shared with partners. The range of sites named reflects a focus on both electricity generation and the local services that depend on it.
The assessment also points to switchyards that connect Ukraine’s three operating nuclear power plants to the national grid, according to the document presented in Paris. Those connections are described as part of the wider energy network that the plan addresses, alongside generation sites and distribution points across the system. Kyiv presented the switchyards as part of the same infrastructure picture set out for European partners.
Kyiv frames the outline as an attempt to break civilian resilience ahead of winter, according to reports. Ukrainian officials have described the approach in the document as methodical, reflecting a campaign that would focus on multiple parts of the energy system at once, including power generation, substations, heating supply through boiler houses and water infrastructure. The framing presented in Paris places civilian resilience at the centre of how Kyiv describes the plan.
The document was presented to European partners in Paris as part of discussions on the coming winter, according to the assessment. Kyiv has shared the material as a Ukrainian-presented assessment, with the outline covering electrical substations, hydroelectric and thermal plants, boiler houses, water systems and the switchyards linking the three operating nuclear plants to the grid. The presentation gave partners the full list of infrastructure types that Kyiv says the plan describes for the winter period.
