--- title: "Second Strike with Four KABs on the Kherson CHP: \"Naftogaz\" Claims All Remaining Equipment Destroyed" description: "During the night, Russia struck the \"Naftogaz\" Kherson CHP again with four KABs, destroying all remaining heat- and power-generating equipment. Tens of thousands of Kherson residents risk being left without heat ahead of the heating season." date: 2026-08-27T11:16:04.000Z lang: en url: https://xab.info/en/posts/second-kab-strike-on-kherson-chp-naftogaz tags: [kherson-tec, naftogaz, energy-infrastructure, russia-ukraine, kab-bombs, heating-season] publisher: "XAB.info" --- # Second Strike with Four KABs on the Kherson CHP: "Naftogaz" Claims All Remaining Equipment Destroyed ![Destroyed Kherson Thermal Power Plant after cruise missile strike: fire, smoke and collapsed equipment structures](https://xab.info/media/2026/08/27/udar-chetyryoma-kabami-po-khersonskoy-tets-naftogaz/udar-chetyryoma-kabami-po-khersonskoy-tets-naftogaz-1.webp) ## 🎯 Key Points - Russian military forces struck the "Naftogaz" Group's Kherson CHP again during the night with four KABs. - According to the operator, all remaining heat- and power-generating equipment at the plant has been destroyed and taken out of service. - Tens of thousands of Kherson residents risk being left without heat on the eve of the heating season. During the night, Russian military forces carried out a second strike on the Kherson combined heat and power plant (CHP) of the "Naftogaz" Group. According to the company, four guided aerial bombs (KABs) were used against the plant's territory. As a result, the operator states, all heat-generating and power-generating equipment that still remained at the facility after previous attacks has been critically damaged and completely taken out of service. ### Strike on What Was Still Working The key detail emphasized by "Naftogaz" is the nature of the damage. The plant had already sustained losses in earlier strikes on the region's energy infrastructure, so the new salvo of KABs was aimed at the effectively remaining capacity. According to the company's assessment, after this attack not a single operating heat- or power-generating unit is left at the Kherson CHP: the equipment has been destroyed and completely disabled. This means that restoring generation on site in the short term is impossible, and the plant has effectively been removed from the power system. ### "The Goal Is Terror of the Civil Population" Serhiy Fedorenko, acting head of the "Naftogaz" board of directors, described the facility as exclusively civilian: the CHP supplies heat to a significant portion of Kherson's residential buildings. "This attack has no military logic whatsoever. Its only purpose is the terror of the civilian population and an attempt to deprive tens of thousands of Kherson residents of their heat source on the eve of the heating season," he stated. Thus, the company interprets the strike not as a military operation but as deliberate pressure on the city's residents ahead of the cold weather. ### Tens of Thousands of Residents Without Heat Ahead of the Heating Season The Kherson CHP is one of the city's main sources of heat. Taking it out of service in August, just a few weeks before the start of the heating season, creates a direct threat to heat supply for tens of thousands of households. As Ukrainian media emphasize, citing "Naftogaz" data, the deliberate strikes on the plant have effectively left part of Kherson without a guaranteed source of heating, shifting the load onto reserve capacity and alternative heat-supply schemes that, amid ongoing attacks on infrastructure, are operating at their limit. ### Contradictory Data When comparing reports from several publications with the operator's statement, two nuances should be noted. First, the exact calendar date of the nighttime strike is not consistently fixed in available publications — everywhere it is referred to only as "the night," without reference to a specific day, so the chronology should be considered approximate. Second, the wording about the scale of the damage varies: some sources write that "all equipment has been destroyed," whereas in "Naftogaz's" statement the wording is "all equipment that remained at the plant." The difference matters: the plant had already been damaged earlier, and the new strike destroyed the remaining, not the original, capacity. Both versions describe the same episode, but with different levels of detail. ## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification - [Kherson CHP Loses All Equipment After New KAB Strike, - Naftogaz](https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/hersonska-tets-vtratila-obladnannya-pislya-1787828957.html) - Подтверждает повторный удар КАБами и полную потерю оборудования по заявлению «Нафтогаза». - [Russia's Second Strike on Kherson CHP Destroys All Equipment - Naftogaz](https://korrespondent.net/ukraine/4906643-povtornyi-udar-rf-po-khersonskoi-tets-unychtozhyl-vse-oborudovanye-naftohaz) - Совпадает с версией о повторном ударе и уничтожении оборудования. - [Russia Strikes Kherson CHP Using KAB: City's Main Heat Source Seriously ...](https://ukranews.com/news/1171074-rossiya-nanesla-udar-s-pomoshhyu-kab-po-hersonskoj-tets-osnovnoj-istochnik-tepla-goroda-serezno) - Подтверждает применение КАБ и статус станции как основного источника тепла города. - [Tens of Thousands Without Heating Due to Russia's Deliberate Strikes on Kherson CHP](https://www.unian.net/economics/energetics/hersonskaya-tec-ne-rabotaet-rossiya-ostavila-herson-bez-otopleniya-13267125.html) - Подтверждает масштаб воздействия на жителей; точная дата удара в заголовке не указана. ## ❓ FAQ ### Q: What happened to the Kherson CHP? **A:** During the night, the plant was struck again with four guided aerial bombs; according to "Naftogaz," all remaining heat- and power-generating equipment has been destroyed and taken out of service. ### Q: How many people could be affected? **A:** According to the company's statement, the CHP supplies heat to a significant portion of Kherson's residential buildings; this concerns tens of thousands of residents who risk being left without heat ahead of the heating season. ### Q: Is there an exact date of the strike? **A:** In available publications the date is not fixed consistently — only "the night" is mentioned, without reference to a specific day, so the chronology should be considered approximate.