Russia Strikes Ukrainian Pylon with Steel-Cutting Drone for 1st Time, as Power Outages Hit 3 Regions
The shaped charge weighs 40 kilograms and is designed to bring down high-voltage pylons, Ukrainian officials said.
- On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Russia launched a massed assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, utilizing a jet-powered UAV equipped with a new "cumulative-cutting" warhead designed specifically to sever high-voltage pylons and iron bridge structures.
- Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi reported that Russia targeted power sites across 11 regions overnight, marking the start of a massed fall-winter campaign. Security Service officials noted Russia holds "thousands" of drones in its current arsenal.
- Identified as KRSN, the specialized payload features a main charge weighing 40 kilograms and four additional strike modules. Adviser Serhii Beskrestnov, known as Flash, assessed the system specifically targets strategically important high-voltage transmission lines.
- Following Ukrenergo instructions, emergency power cuts were introduced in Kyiv on Wednesday. Local monitoring channels reported that electric transport stopped in the Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi districts due to a loss of voltage in the overhead network.
- Ukraine enters the winter season exposed, with energy resilience plans less than half complete. Russia intends to "deploy the entire arsenal over the next two months," as officials note Ukraine lacks effective weapons against jet-powered drones.
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The Russian army deployed on 30 September 2026 a new type of military charge on a jet drone to hit the electricity transport infrastructure, causing emergency power outages in...
Russia strikes Ukrainian pylon with steel-cutting drone for 1st time, as power outages hit 3 regions
The warhead was designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridges and contains a 40-kilogram main charge and four additional destructive modules, Serhii Beskrestnov said.
Occupiers use KRSN warheads on jet-powered UAVs for first time, enabling attacks on power grids – presidential adviser
An adviser to the President of Ukraine Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov said that during an airstrike on Wednesday, Russian occupiers used a jet-powered drone carrying a special warhead fitted with a cumulative cutting charge (KRSN) during an airstrike on Wednesday and suggested that they would now target power grids – for which such warheads were designed.
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Russia adds new weapon to its jet-powered drones, even more dangerous: 40-kilogram charge made to sever high-voltage pylons and iron bridges
Russia fitted a jet drone with a new warhead built to cut power pylons, Flash says, as it opens a massed assault on Ukraine's grid.
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