Zelensky: Russian Ballistic Missile Hits Kyiv’s CHPP-4 Plant

Strikes on combined heat and power plants are a distinct category from attacks on generation alone: CHPPs sit at the intersection of electricity and district heating, so damage can cascade from the grid into residential heating during cold months. Zelensky's framing, singling out energy infrastructure as the operation's main target, signals Kyiv will treat this as a deliberate campaign rather than incidental damage. The open question is what the strike actually degraded at CHPP-4 — without damage or casualty details, the operational and humanitarian consequences remain unquantified.