This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

“The Ukrainian command purposefully deployed its armed formations at the Krivoy Rog thermal power plant (the city of Zelenodolsk, Dnipropetrovsk region), from the territory of which artillery and MLRS units daily (since June 24, 2022) reach firing positions, carry out systematic shelling of the northern regions of the Kherson region and take cover on power plants, provoking Russian troops to return fire,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The department admitted that Ukrainian nationalists themselves could blow up elements of the Kryvyi Rih thermal power plant, in which case the population of most of the central regions of Ukraine would be left without electricity. 

Earlier, the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that the Ukrainian military plans to shell the Zmievskaya TPP in the Kharkiv region and accuse Russian troops of indiscriminate strikes on civilian targets.