OSINT account reports glide bombs and missiles hit Kharkiv's TEC-5 power plant

Kharkiv's TEC-5 thermal power plant was struck early on 3 November by at least six KAB glide bombs released from two Su-34 aircraft, according to the open-source mapping account @AMK_Mapping_ on X ¹. No official confirmation of the strike on the plant, or of the weapons involved, was available at the time of writing.

In a later post, the same account gave a fuller description of the attack. It said the plant was hit by roughly four Iskander-M ballistic missiles as well as about six KAB glide bombs ². The first post mentioned only the glide bombs ¹. Both accounts come from a single open-source monitor rather than Ukrainian military or energy officials, so the number of munitions and the aircraft type remain unverified.

Kharkiv city council said heating and hot water supplies in the city had been partly suspended because of shelling, according to a post by @EuromaidanPR relaying the council's statement ³. The post did not name TEC-5 or say which facilities had been damaged.

A separate post by @Worldsource24, citing Times of Ukraine, said Russian forces dropped an aerial bomb on a medical facility in Kharkiv's Nemyshlyanskyi district ⁴. Other reports from the same morning described a medical facility in Kharkiv being hit by a missile and said about 25 people were injured. These accounts give different weapons, and it is not clear whether they describe the same incident. No casualties have been reported in connection with the power plant.

TEC-5 stands on the edge of Kharkiv and is among Ukraine's largest power plants. Russian missiles previously struck it in September 2022, during Ukraine's counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region. The posts that reported the latest strike did not describe the extent of the damage or whether the plant stopped running ¹².

The reported attack on Kharkiv came during a wider wave of strikes on Ukraine's energy system overnight. Other accounts described hits on thermal and hydroelectric plants in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy oblasts, and a ballistic missile strike on Dnipro. Separately, Ukrainian forces were reported to have attacked an oil refinery in Russia's Yaroslavl region.

Neither Ukraine's Air Force nor Kharkiv regional or city authorities had publicly confirmed the details given by the mapping account at the time of writing ¹²³. There was also no confirmation from the plant's operator or Ukraine's national grid operator. Russia's Defence Ministry had not commented on the reported strike.