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Deprivation of Electricity and Heating

Aggressors may systematically destroy energy infrastructure facilities, thermal power plants, and power transmission lines to create conditions incompatible with normal life. Mass deprivation of basic necessities serves as a form of collective punishment aimed at physically and psychologically breaking the society's will to resist.

ID: T0124
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
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Tactic: Defense Impairment
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People: Ukrainians
Contributors: decolonial.ist project
Version: 1.1
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 9 August 2026
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Procedures Carried Out


April 2014
C0101 Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015)
G0011 Russian Federation
S0017 Secret Police and Security Services

Targeted cyberattacks by Russian security services on distribution substations of the Ukrainian power grid in the winters of 2015 and 2016, aimed at causing mass power outages for the civilian population[1][2].

References

  1. MITRE ATT&CK®. (2023). 2015 Ukraine Electric Power Attack | MITRE ATT&CK®.
  1. MITRE ATT&CK®. (2023). 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack | MITRE ATT&CK®.