During the night of July 15, the city of Kerch and several other settlements in temporarily occupied Crimea came under a drone attack. The strikes caused power outages across parts of the peninsula’s Northwestern and Eastern energy districts, while Kerch was left completely without electricity.
The information was reported by monitoring Telegram channels and confirmed by Ivan Koshel, the Russian-installed head of Kerch’s city administration.
According to Koshel, the city experienced a total blackout following the UAV attack. Critical infrastructure facilities are operating on backup power, while emergency and municipal services have been mobilized to restore electricity. No timeline for restoring the power supply has been provided.
The occupation-controlled utility Krymenergo stated that the drone strikes damaged power infrastructure, leaving several settlements in Crimea’s Northwestern and Eastern energy districts without electricity.
As of the morning of July 15, the company said electricity restrictions remained in effect across the entire peninsula. Power outages would continue depending on conditions in individual energy districts, and officials said it was currently impossible to estimate when normal electricity supply would be restored.
Meanwhile, the Water of Crimea utility reported disruptions to water supplies in nine districts of the occupied peninsula.
At the same time, Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed that 93 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted overnight. According to the ministry, the attacks targeted the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, and Rostov regions, the Moscow area, Krasnodar Krai, and occupied Crimea.
A day earlier, the occupation authorities in Sevastopol introduced a “special operating regime” at energy facilities following a large-scale drone attack, while parts of Crimea had already experienced widespread power outages.
Earlier, Ukraine’s Armed Forces also reported destroying the Russian patrol ship Izumrud, which participated in the 2018 attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Kerch Strait. The operation near Novorossiysk was carried out using the Sargan-3000 unmanned naval system.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to establish a new fuel supply system for occupied Crimea.
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