Since Wednesday morning, Russian occupation sources reported about a series of explosions at a hydro-electric power-station in Baksan, a town in the Russian-occupied Caucasian Emirate's Combined Province of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachai. Shortly after the first reports, a spokesman of the OAO RusHydro, the Russia's largest hydropower company, said it was a sabotage.
Occupation source specified that at about 04:20 a.m. local time, a sabotage squad entered the hydro-electric power-station. They killed three police gang members, took their weapons, and seized the administration building of the station. Two workers of the overnight shift were claimed to be beat up.
They installed explosive devices in the control room. Starting from 05:20 a.m., three explosions with an interval of 5-6 minutes went off in the control room.
Before hitting the station, the Mujahideen attacked a district police headquarters in the village of Islamey, Baksan district.
The base of Russian minions was attacked with automatic weapons and grenade launchers. Puppet sources claim no casualties among the policemen.
Four explosive devices went off in the control room of the hydro-electric power-station. At 06:15 a.m. the work of the station was halted as a result of the sabotage operation.
Occupation sources believe that a group of saboteurs consisted of 4-5 fighters. Meanwhile, local puppet police claim that the unit of Mujahideen included up to 12 fighters. It is also claimed that they attacked a police headquarters in the Islamey village.
The power station is located about 15 km from the district center of Baksan. Bombardment of the police building was an attack to divert the enemy, according to local puppets.
After the initial reports on the successful sabotage operation, the occupation sources, after began to issue propaganda about the incident. Thus, according to the invaders, the Mujahedeen presumably tortured the station workers.
"After killing the guards, the gunmen entered the control room and seized workers of the hydro-electric power-station. The workers had no time to press the alarm button. They were bound with tape and then tortured. One of them has several stab wounds, and another was badly beaten with buttstocks", said a spokesman of the RusHydro.
The invaders claimed that the Mujahideen "forced the station workers to indicate the location of hydroelectric generators and oil switches of open switchgear, serving for the reception and distribution of electric power".
From this tale, the readers are to assume that the workers of the station heroically kept silent and betrayed the "strategic secret" only after torture.
Curiously, one of those "tortured" is at home and does not need medical care. Another victim was sent to a hospital.
Russian invaders openly acknowledged that it was a sabotage operation by the Mujahideen.
"The pattern of the attack indicates that it has been a well-planned sabotage operation", the invaders say.
It is reported that all three generators were destroyed by the explosions.
The invaders stated that all the facilities of the "RusHydro" in the region are now heavily guarded. They also claim that there is no risk of flooding as a result of the explosion at the hydropower station.
In connection with the sabotage at the Baksan hydro-electric power-station, the occupation media outlets specify that it was "the first confirmed fact of a successful attack of the Caucasian Mujahideen on Russian strategic infrastructure facilities".
A sabotage operation at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower was also mentioned in this context. Moscow is still trying to deny that the explosion at the Sayano-Shushenskaya station was due to a sabotage, and not an accident, for which no trustworthy explanation was been given.
Commentators and analysts have also recalled that Caucasus Emirate's Emir Dokku Abu Usman had previously warned about the beginning of a subversive war with destruction of infrastructure in Russia's heartland.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
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