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The Sloviansk thermal power plant, in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, suspended operations due to the advance of the Russian offensive in that area of Donbas, reported on Saturday (28.05.2022) the operating company, Donbasenergo.
The decision was made on Friday to protect the lives and health of plant employees and in view of the need to evacuate them and their families, the company said.
The area where the plant is located, near the town of Limán, taken yesterday by Russian forces, is under constant attack by Russian rockets and artillery, Donbasenergo said in its statement.
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“During the entire active phase of the war, the personnel of the power plant heroically ensured the operation of the generating equipment and the supply of electricity to the Ukrainian grid”, the company highlighted.
The central Sloviansk t has a capacity of 880 megawatts.
As part of its offensive in Donbas, the Russian forces are trying to encircle the city of Severodonetsk, the second largest urban center in the oblast (province), much of whose perimeter is already surrounded.
For their On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Defense assured that it controls the town of Limán, a key point in its advance in eastern Ukraine, which paves the way for its troops to Sloviansk, which kyiv seized from the pro-Russian separatists in 2014, Severodonetsk and Kramatorsk, the capital of the Donetsk region that remains under the control of Ukraine.
“After joint actions of militia units of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian armed forces, the city of Liman has been fully liberated from Ukrainian nationalists,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. )
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski recognized in a v I think that “the situation in Donbas is very, very difficult”.
Zelenski assured that “if the occupants think that Liman and Severodonetsk will be theirs, they are wrong.” “Donbas will be Ukrainian”, he reiterated.