Partisans blow up electricity infrastructure in Melitopol to stop Russian forces connecting Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Russian system

The local publication RIA-Melitopol shared the news.

"On August 17, at 10:58, an explosion rang out in the southern part of the city, after which the occupiers blocked the southern exit from Melitopol. At the roadblock when turning to the New Cemetery, the military allowed transport to detour through Sadove," the message reads.

On the night of August 18, at around 3:25, the work of anti-aircraft defense could be heard in the center of Melitopol, and an explosion could be heard in the southern part.

The journalists learned from their own sources that they had blown up the electrical resistance.

"Melitopol saboteurs ruined the plans of the Rashists to quickly reconnect the ZNPP," the editorial office informs.

Earlier in Melitopol, heavy-duty vehicles with bundles of wires and drums of transformer oil were spotted. The journalists assume that they were brought in to implement the plan to connect the Zaporizhzhia NPP to the Russian energy system.

"To do this, the occupiers planned to wipe out the entire south of Ukraine. Instead, they want to "heal" the region from the Dzhankoy substation, then from the Kakhovska HPP and eventually take away the ower of the nuclear plant. But the partisans ruined the Russian plans," added RIA-Melitopol.