Russians attack energy facility in Mykolaiv Oblast: power outages reported

Russian forces struck an energy facility in Mykolaiv Oblast on the night of 25-26 September, leaving some people without electricity.

Source: Vitalii Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "Air defence assets and personnel conducted combat operations in Mykolaiv Oblast on the night of 25-26 September. Details will follow later.

The enemy attacked an energy infrastructure facility in the oblast, and consumers are experiencing power outages."

Details: Kim noted that power engineers had reconnected most of the buildings to the power grid, and the work is ongoing.

Nobody was injured in the attack.

Background:

• On the evening of 25 September, Russian troops launched attack drones on Ukraine.
• Explosions also rang out in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. A critical infrastructure facility was damaged in a Russian drone attack on Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk was partly disconnected from the power grid.
• Explosions were heard in the city of Kyiv at night, where air defence systems were responding. Reports indicated that wreckage from a Russian Shahed drone had caused a fire on the ground floor of a residential building in the Pecherskskyi district of Kyiv. Approximately 20 cars were damaged and wreckage fell on a kindergarten. Authorities reported that around ten drones had been downed over the capital.
• Another 13 Russian Shahed drones were intercepted in the skies over Sumy Oblast.

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