A drone attack launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the power grid of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, annexed by Russia, has caused a widespread power outage in the capital of the same name and in several nearby municipalities, local authorities appointed by Moscow have denounced this Tuesday.
The Luhansk Executive has said that the incursion of these unmanned aerial vehicles caused serious damage to the regional energy infrastructure. The local Ministry of Energy has warned that the possibility of new enemy bombardments on the grid continues to be high, which complicates and conditions the repair work carried out by the emergency brigades.
Along with these incidents affecting the supply of electricity, drone attacks at other points on the front have left a toll of at least three dead and four injured.
In the Belgorod region, the authorities of the operational headquarters have reported the deaths of two men after a drone hit the vehicle in which they were traveling near the town of Zozuli, in the Borisov district. In addition, two other civilians were injured in the area in separate incidents in Koshlakovo and Shebekino, with damage also recorded to vehicles and infrastructure in Berezovka, Rakitnoie, Borki, and Proletarski.
On the other hand, Donetsk mayor Alexei Kulemzin has announced the death of a 51-year-old man and an injured person after a drone hit a residential building block in the Petrovski district, to which is added a second injured person in the Kievski district.
In the opposite direction, the governors of the city of Sevastopol, Mijail Razvozhaev, and of the Kaluga region, Vladislav Shapsha, have stated that their air defense systems managed to intercept and shoot down eight and five Ukrainian drones, respectively, with no victims or material damage recorded so far.
These attacks coincide with the eve of the meeting scheduled for this Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where the negotiating teams of Russia and Ukraine will take part in a new round of trilateral talks together with the United States.