Sevastopol Was Left Completely Without Power For The Second Time In Two Weeks

After the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack.

Occupied Sevastopol was left completely without power on the night of July 6 following strikes by Ukrainian drones on Crimea’s energy infrastructure, according to the Russian-appointed mayor Mikhail Razvozhayev. “Specialists are currently doing everything possible to restore power to homes. Conserve your phone battery. Use your devices only for emergency communications. Turn off background apps and set the brightness to the minimum,” Razvozhayev wrote on his Telegram channel. He noted that public facilities have switched to backup power supplies, and due to the lack of power in the grid, trolleybuses will not run in the morning, the website The Moscow Times.

Later, Razvozhayev reported that power engineers had managed to restore electricity supply via backup circuits and that power was beginning to return to residential buildings. However, he said that to prevent a failure in Crimea’s power grid, temporary power restrictions may occur throughout the day. Razvozhayev also urged Sevastopol residents, once power was restored, not to turn on all high-power electrical appliances at once, so that the load on the grid would increase gradually. The previous time Sevastopol lost power was following an attack by Ukrainian drones on June 24. The following day, the city announced temporary power rationing. It was lifted only on June 29, but reinstated a day later. Residents were urged not to use elevators and to reduce the load on the grid.

According to the monitoring channel “Crimean Wind,” the Tavricheskaya Thermal Power Plant and the Simferopol Thermal Power Plant were struck on the night of July 6. As a result, power outages occurred not only in Sevastopol but also along the entire southern coast of Crimea and in Simferopol. Prior to that, on July 3, Ukrainian forces struck seven power substations as well as a solar power plant on the peninsula.

In June, Ukrainian authorities announced plans to isolate Crimea from Russia and turn it “into an island.” To this end, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), with the help of drones, established de facto control over traffic on the R-280 “Novorossiya” federal highway, which connects the Rostov Region with the annexed Crimea through occupied Ukrainian territories. As a result, a fuel shortage emerged on the peninsula, which worsened by the end of June—gas stations stopped selling gasoline and diesel.

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