According to the ministry, the attacks damaged high-voltage equipment in the northwest of Zaporozhye Province and a substation in Kherson, prompting instructions to install backup sources of electricity as soon as possible.

Zaporozhye Governor Yevgeny Balitsky wrote on his Telegram channel that more than 600,000 residents of the region of Zaporozhye were left without power as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against energy facilities. He also stated that the fires resulting from the attack have been extinguished, and that critical facilities are operational thanks to backup sources, while the water supply is guaranteed by generators.

The head of Kherson Oblast, Vladimir Saldo, reported that fragments of the downed drones damaged a substation in Kherson and another in Zaporozhye, leaving 150 communities in four districts of the region without power.

“This affects more than 104,000 people and 44 socially important facilities. All critical facilities are connected to backup power sources,” Saldo said, adding that specialists are working to restore the power supply.

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