The head of the Kursk regional government said that on Wednesday night Ukrainian forces attacked electrical substations in the border area, leaving 16,000 people without power in the Glushovsky, Rylsky and Korenevsky districts.
Around 16,000 people were affected by power cuts in the Kursk region of Russia following a Ukrainian drone attack, the regional governor said this Thursday.
Alexander Khinshtein, head of the Kursk regional government, said that on Wednesday night the Ukrainian forces attacked electrical substations in the border area, leaving 16,000 people without power nos distritos de Glushovsky, Rylsky e Korenevsky.
In information released through social media, the governor added that emergency power supply was restored in Rylsky in the last few hours.
Russian media published abroad also reported a Ukrainian attack, during the night, against the Ryazan oil refinery, located in a region close to Moscow.
However, the person responsible for the Russian refinery, Pavel Malkov, stated on social media that a The company’s unit was damaged, although no further details were provided.
The Ministry of Defense’s daily report indicated that Russian air defenses shot down a total of 65 Ukrainian unmanned aerial devices (drones) during the early hours of Thursday.
Most of the downed drones occurred in the regions of Voronezh (18), Ryazan (16) and Belgorod (14).
Another seven drones were intercepted in Tula, four in Bryansk, three in Lipetsk, two in Tambov and one in Crimea, a Ukrainian region annexed by Russia in 2014.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have also shot down 65 Ukrainian droness over four regions, and in areas close to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Pro-Russian authorities in Donetsk, annexed by Russia in 2022, admitted that 65% of the region’s population remains without electricity after a Ukrainian attack with drones and missiles recorded last Tuesday.
According to Kiev, the main target of the attacks are iRussian energy production and distribution facilities.
Ukraine seeks, on the one hand, to make it difficult to supply fuel to the Russian Army and, on the other, to reduce Russia’s ability to export crude oil and derivatives, one of the country’s main sources of foreign exchange.
As temperatures drop, the Russian army continues to attack Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, forcing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to travel to France, Greece and Spain in search of energy aid.
