MOSCOW, June 3. /TASS/. Several municipal districts in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions were partially left without power due to Ukraine’s massive drone attack in the early hours of June 3.
TASS has compiled key facts about the aftermath of the Ukrainian attack on the Russian regions.
Scale of attack
- Ukraine used fixed-wing attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to carry out its massive attack, said Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo.
- The strikes targeted energy infrastructure located in the regions.
- Debris from the downed UAVs damaged a new electrical substation in the Genichesky district of the Kherson Region and a substation in the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye Region, Saldo reported.
Aftermath
- As many as 457 settlements in the Zaporozhye Region remain without electricity, Governor Yevgeny Balitsky said.
- The power outage affected more than 600,000 residents, he noted.
- Over 104,000 people in 150 settlements in the Genichesky, Novotroitsky, Ivanovsky, and Nizhneserogozsky districts of the Kherson Region were left without power due to Ukraine’s drone attack, Saldo specified.
- A transformer at the electrical substation in the Genichesky district caught fire as a result of the strike, but employees of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry extinguished the fire.
- Power engineers promptly began restoring power supply in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions.
- Socially significant facilities in the Zaporozhye Region, which were left without power after the Ukrainian drone attack, were connected to backup power sources, Balitsky said.
- Over 220,000 residents of nine districts in the Kherson Region remain without water and electricity, Saldo noted.
- The Genichesky, Novotroitsky, Ivanovsky, Velikolepetikhsky, Nyzhneserogozsky districts and parts of Kakhovky, Gornostaevsky, Verkhnerogachinsky, and Chaplinsky districts of the Kherson Region remain without power due to the emergency shutdown of the Dzhankoy-Melitopol high-voltage line.
- In total, the power outages in the Kherson Region affected 288 settlements and 44 socially significant facilities.
- Hospitals and social institutions in the Kherson Region are operating normally, all of them are powered by reserve generators, said Sergey Georgiev, the region's human rights commissioner.
- Specialists from the state-owned enterprise Oblvodokanal, which operates in the Kherson Region, connected water pumping stations to emergency backup generators and organized the supply of process water to residents, a regional news outlet reported.
- Power engineers are quickly preparing backup power systems, inspecting power lines, and checking equipment, Saldo said.