Mass blackouts hit occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya oblasts
A large-scale power outage swept across Russian-occupied territories in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya oblasts following a drone strike on the Shchastya Thermal Power Plant, Russian media outlet Astra reported on Aug. 28.
A large-scale power outage struck Russian-occupied areas in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya oblasts after a drone attack on the Shchastya Thermal Power Plant, as reported by Russian media outlet Astra on August 28. An immediate fire broke out at the thermal power plant following the UAV impact. Local communication channels had already warned of active drone threats by 9 p.m. on August 27.
Reports of emergency power outages began appearing around midnight across the occupied regions. Russian occupation authorities refrained from providing official comments on the electrical grid failure. Emergency crews managed to partially restore power to certain districts around 4 a.m. On August 22, Commander Robert Brovdi of the Uncrewed Systems Forces (USF) revealed that his units conducted 27 targeted strikes on critical energy nodes in occupied Crimea and southern territories of mainland Ukraine over a six-day period starting August 17.
Additionally, Ukrainian forces disabled a total of 267 Russian military and strategic energy nodes between July 1 and August 28 as part of the Crimean Circuit Breaker Off operation.
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