# [7D] Russia Expands Hypersonic and Ballistic Campaign to Systematically Cripple Ukraine’s Power Grid

*Issued Monday, July 6, 2026 at 4:32 AM UTC — Hamer Intelligence Services Desk*

**Issued**: 2026-07-06T04:32:11.889Z (5h ago)
**Expires**: 2026-07-13T04:32:11.889Z (7d from now)
**Category**: MILITARY | **Confidence**: 70% | **Impact**: CRITICAL
**Risk Direction**: escalatory
**Affected Regions**: Kyiv, Central and Eastern Ukraine
**Affected Assets**: Ukrainian rail logistics, Defense-industrial facilities, European electricity trade with Ukraine
**Permalink**: https://hamerintel.com/data/forecasts/16071.md
**Source**: https://hamerintel.com/forecasts

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## Prediction

Over the next 7 days, Russia is likely to continue and broaden its use of Zircon-class and ballistic missiles to systematically degrade Ukraine’s remaining hydro and thermal power plants, with Kyiv as the focal point. Repeated strikes will target generation and transmission nodes, testing repair capacity and aiming to induce rolling or prolonged outages in major cities. This will weaken Ukraine’s war economy, disrupt rail and defense production, and pressure Western partners to prioritize grid-hardening aid. Confirmation would be multiple follow-on attacks hitting additional energy assets beyond those already struck; denial would be a reversion to more dispersed, less infrastructure-focused targeting.

## Drivers

- Recent strikes on Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant and two major thermal plants
- Emerging trend of Ukraine–Russia energy war and reciprocal deep-strike campaigns
- Russian doctrine emphasizing infrastructure attacks to exhaust war economies