Massive power outages hit Moscow region after major drone attack
Photo: Russians reported strikes on the power grid in the Moscow region (collage by RBC-Ukraine)
In the Moscow region, approximately 10,000 people were left without power following a nighttime drone attack. Mosoblenergo reported the first widespread power outage since the beginning of the year, according to Russian media.
On Monday night, drones launched a massive attack on the Moscow Region. The Pavlovo-Posad branch of Mosoblenergo reports that it had switched to emergency operations due to damage to equipment.
Over 10,000 customers and 46 socially significant facilities were left without power. The company explains that 109 transformer substations in the city of Likino-Dulyovo and the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky urban district were left without power.
"Due to damage to power grid equipment belonging to a higher-level power grid organization, which caused a power outage at 109 transformer substations of Mosoblenergo JSC in the city of Likino-Dulyovo and the Orekhovo-Zuyevo municipal district," the company explains.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin specifies that from yesterday evening until 5 a.m., 620 drones flew toward the Moscow Region, 180 of which were shot down directly over the region.
The TASS news agency called this raid the largest attempted attack on the Russian capital in the past two years. The previous record-breaking raid in terms of scale occurred just the day before, on Sunday.
The last widespread blackout caused by a drone attack in the Moscow Region occurred in late December of last year. At that time, 120,000 people in Zhukovsky, Litkarino, and Ramenskoye were left without power.
On the night of August 18, a drone attack was also recorded in Moscow and the surrounding region, and fires broke out in several locations.
Meanwhile, one of the drones struck a Wildberries marketplace warehouse in the Bogorodsky district last night, where a fire broke out.
According to Governor Andrei Vorobyov, the fire was quickly contained, and no casualties were reported.
