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Ukraine strikes 19 more Russian energy facilities in occupied territories

Mon, July 20, 2026 - 21:47
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Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces are destroying Russian energy hubs in Crimea
Ukraine strikes 19 more Russian energy facilities in occupied territories Photo: A Ukrainian soldier with a Mavic drone (Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
On July 20, Ukrainian forces successfully continued their operation dubbed Crimean Switch Off, according to Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi.

New strikes in Crimea and temporarily occupied territories

Madyar said the Unmanned Systems Forces successfully struck another 19 Russian energy facilities in occupied Crimea and other Russian-occupied territories.

"From July 1 to 20, we have successfully hit a total of 104 substations and power facilities," he said.

Targets hit in Crimea included:

  • 110 kV Luchistoye substation, Luchyste;
  • 110 kV Morskoye substation, Morske;
  • 110 kV Privetnoye substation, Pryvitne;
  • 110 kV Darsan substation, Yalta;
  • 110 kV Solyana substation, Kerch;
  • 220 kV Azovskaya substation, Staryi Krym;
  • 110 kV Zorya substation, Ponyzivka;
  • 110 kV Kapsel substation, Sudak;
  • 110 kV Koktebel substation, Shchebetovka;
  • 110 kV Lenino substation, Yedy-Kuyu;
  • 220 kV Nasosnaya-3 substation, Zelenyi Yar;
  • 150 kV Berdianskaya substation, Berdiansk.

Targets hit in occupied territories

On July 20, Madyar also reported strikes on energy infrastructure in the Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions. The affected facilities included substations in:

  • Shyroke, Kherson region;
  • Zemlianky, Donetsk region;
  • Bezhynove, Luhansk region;
  • Bila Hora, Luhansk region;
  • Denezhnykove, Luhansk region;
  • Makiivka, Donetsk region;
  • Hanivka, Zaporizhzhia region.

Earlier, it was reported that during the night of July 20, operators from the Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed eight key elements of Russia's air defense network.

As a result of the successful operations, traffic across the Kerch ferry crossing has been almost completely paralyzed. Of the five ferries that supported Russian military logistics, most have been destroyed or seriously damaged.

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