Mass Blackouts Reported Across Occupied Crimea
- On Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, an overnight attack on the Taman substation in Russia's Krasnodar Krai caused widespread blackouts across Russian-occupied Crimea, which depends on the facility for electricity.
- Russian forces have occupied Crimea since 2014, establishing it as a major military hub; this summer, Ukrainian forces reportedly hit 16 power stations across the peninsula in 48 hours to hinder Moscow's war effort.
- The monitoring channel Crimean Wind reported simultaneous outages in Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yalta, Feodosia, Dzhankoi, Alushta, and Yevpatoria, while the online watchdog NetBlocks confirmed widespread internet disruptions across the peninsula.
- Sevastopol's Russian-installed governor Mykhailo Razvozhaev confirmed on Telegram that "our city is temporarily without power," yet the Crimean Wind channel later reported residents experienced renewed outages despite authority claims of restoration.
- Separately, Governor Yury Slyusar reported a drone strike on energy infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, where damage to a transformer substation in the Myasnikovsky district caused blackouts in nearly 130 homes.
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According to Russian authorities, water and electricity supplies were cut off in occupied Crimea on Saturday following a Ukrainian attack.
Ukrainian attack cuts water, power in occupied Crimea: Russia
MOSCOW: A Ukrainian attack led to water and power cuts in occupied Crimea Saturday, as a barrage of drones in several regions inside Russia left several dead, according to Russian authorities. Ukrainian officials said Russian drone and missile strikes across eastern Ukraine killed at least five people on Saturday. Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed head of the Crimean peninsula, wrote on Telegram that due to the drone attack on local power gr…
Russian-Occupied Crimea Goes Dark After Drone Strikes Hit Power Infrastructure
Large parts of temporarily occupied Crimea lost electricity overnight on October 24 following drone attacks on energy infrastructure, with a major Russian power substation supplying the peninsula reportedly among the targets.
A power outage affected the occupied Crimea on the night of 23 to 24 October, after a reported attack on an important electrical substation in southern Russia. Several localities, including Sevastopol and Ialta, were left without electricity, and monitoring organisations also reported Internet connectivity problems. Although authorities installed in Moscow later announced the restoration of power in some areas, new reports of disruptions have em…
A large-scale power outage affected the occupied Crimea on the night of 24 October, following an attack on a key electrical substation in southern Russia, according to the monitoring channels on Telegram.
All key substations on the peninsula have been disabled.
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