Occupied Sevastopol Left Without Power After Drone Attack
Sevastopol was completely blacked out after a mass drone attack on its energy infrastructure overnight on June 24, according to the Russian-installed administration. Explosions were also reported in other parts of Crimea.
The self-proclaimed governor of occupied Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, stated that the city lost all electricity as a result of a massive drone attack on energy infrastructure during the night of June 24. Witnesses and monitoring channels reported a series of powerful explosions across Crimea throughout the night.
The main target was the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant in Sevastopol, one of the key power stations on the peninsula. Razvozhayev confirmed that the city was temporarily without power but tried to reassure residents, saying they would not be intimidated and would endure. He also urged people to conserve their phone batteries.
In addition to Sevastopol, explosions were heard in Bakhchysarai, Kerch, and near Mount Ai-Petri, where a radar station of a Russian Aerospace Forces radio-technical battalion is located.
The previous evening, on June 23, Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the so-called head of the annexed peninsula, announced the "preemptive" introduction of rolling blackout schedules in Crimea, as roughly half of the peninsula had already lost power. Earlier, the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces claimed strikes on fuel tanks at the Kerch thermal power plant and the 330/110 kV substation "Western Crimea."
