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Nighttime Ukrainian attacks disrupted electricity and heating in two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials said Sunday.
Regional governor Alexander Gusev said the drone strike caused a temporary blackout and heating cuts in parts of Voronezh. He said several drones jammed electronically during the night in the city, home to just over 1 million people, causing a fire at a local utility facility that was quickly extinguished.
Russian and Ukrainian news channels on Telegram It was claimed that a local thermal power plant was targeted in the attack.
Local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported the next morning that a missile attack late Saturday caused “severe damage” to the electricity and heating systems supplying the city of Belgorod. About 20,000 houses were affected, he said.
Belgorod had a population of approximately 340,000 as of the last census in 2021, and is the administrative center of the region of the same name.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its forces destroyed or intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones during the night, which were over two southwestern regions, Bryansk and RostovThe statement made no mention of Voronezh or Belgorod provinces, nor did it say how many drones Ukraine launched.
moscow And Kyiv There are almost daily attacks on each other’s energy targets as US-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year-old war have had no effect on the battlefield.
Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks on Russian refineries are intended to deprive Moscow of oil export revenues needed to escalate the war. Russia wants to paralyze the Ukrainian power grid and deprive citizens of access to heat, light and running water in what Kiev officials say is an effort to “weaponize winter.”