More than 200,000 homes in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine were left without power following a Ukrainian army attack, the Moscow-installed authorities said Sunday.
“Following an enemy attack on the regionS energy infrastructure, a large part of the Zaporizhzhia region has been left without electricity,” Moscow-installed official Yevgeny Balitsky said on Telegram.
According to Balitsky, the attack cut power to 213,000 customers and 386 localities in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed governor of the neighboring Kherson region, said on Saturday evening that a Ukrainian strike had hit an electrical substation, causing outages in 14 towns and 450 villages.
He later said that emergency repair work had restored power.
Russia has hit Ukraine with daily drone and missile barrages in recent months, targeting energy infrastructure and cutting power and heating in the frigid depths of winter.