As the energy minister Miłosz Motyka explained, the perpetrators wanted to disrupt communication between manufacturing installations and network operators. The object of the attack was 1 heat plant and many individual RES sources across the country. It was the first time they attacked at the same time in different places. The attack failed, but the situation was dangerous.
The Russians wanted to trigger a blackout in Poland?
On the another hand, the Minister of Digitization Krzysztof Gawkowski acknowledged that this was 1 of the largest specified actions in years, which aimed at bringing to blackout. – Everything indicates that we are dealing with Russian sabotage, due to the fact that it must be called by name, which was to destabilise the situation in Poland," he said in RMF FM.
At the same time, he noted: "We have well-prepared institutions, so we should not panic." What is worth noting, attempts to attack the Polish energy sector occurred at a time erstwhile we face hard weather conditions. In Poland there is simply a several-stage frost, and in addition there is no shortage of snow and freezing rain.
W Berlin saw what blackout means in winter
Recall that the blackout was late faced by residents of 1 of the districts in Berlin. In early January, an attack on the power grid occurred in Steglitz-Zehlendorf. As a consequence of arson of the cable bridge without electricity, about 45 1000 households (a full of about 100 1000 people).
This interruption in the supply of electricity was the longest in the German capital since 1945. Effects? Blackout in Berlin caused the city's paralysis and caused panic. There were no aggregates, and older people and people with disabilities needed urgent care.
Some gathered in gymnasiums where temporary shelters were organized. The Berliners complained about the deficiency of information and the appropriate consequence of the authorities. Eventually, the power was only restored after a fewer days. It was during the winter that caused the real crisis. In Germany, they're inactive trying to figure out who was behind this. There have been suspicions towards 1 of the leftist groups.
About how to prepare for a possible blackout, we wrote in the subject here.
