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
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0101 Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015)

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].

C0103 Full-Scale Invasion (from February 24, 2022)

Systematic cyberattacks on energy companies and municipal district heating enterprises amid the full-scale war, aimed at cutting off electricity and heat supplies to Ukrainian civilian consumers[3][4].
Systematic massed strikes with cruise missiles and kamikaze drones (Shahed) against generation facilities (the Zmiiv CHP plant, Kharkiv CHP-5, the Trypillia thermal power plant, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) and transformer substations to cause blackouts[5].

G0011 Russian Federation

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].

G0011 Russian Federation

Systematic cyberattacks on energy companies and municipal district heating enterprises amid the full-scale war, aimed at cutting off electricity and heat supplies to Ukrainian civilian consumers[3][4].
Systematic massed strikes with cruise missiles and kamikaze drones (Shahed) against generation facilities (the Zmiiv CHP plant, Kharkiv CHP-5, the Trypillia thermal power plant, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) and transformer substations to cause blackouts[5].

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].

S0017 Secret Police and Security Services

Systematic cyberattacks on energy companies and municipal district heating enterprises amid the full-scale war, aimed at cutting off electricity and heat supplies to Ukrainian civilian consumers[3][4].
Systematic massed strikes with cruise missiles and kamikaze drones (Shahed) against generation facilities (the Zmiiv CHP plant, Kharkiv CHP-5, the Trypillia thermal power plant, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) and transformer substations to cause blackouts[5].

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