The governor of the Voronezh region in southwestern Russia said today (Sunday) that an attack launched by Ukraine during the night with drones led to a temporary outage of electricity and heating supplies in the city of Voronezh in southwestern Russia.
Governor Alexander Gusev said on the Telegram application that the attack on Voronezh, the administrative center of the broader Voronezh region, did not result in any casualties.
He added that electronic warfare systems disabled a number of drones. Which led to a fire in a utility facility that was quickly extinguished, according to Reuters.
Gusev said that safety measures led to brief changes in central heating temperatures in some homes, and to a short power outage in parts of the city, but supplies later returned to normal.
In its daily report on the Telegram application, today (Sunday), the Russian Ministry of Defense did not indicate that any drones were shot down over the Voronezh region. The ministry cites the number of drones destroyed by its units, not the number of drones launched by Ukraine.
The ministry said that 44 Ukrainian drones were destroyed or intercepted overnight, including 43 over the Bryansk border region, and one over the Rostov region in southern Russia.
Ukraine has intensified its attacks with drones and long-range missiles inside Russia, striking oil refineries, warehouses, and logistics centers that it says support the Russian war in Ukraine.
Moscow describes these attacks as “terrorist,” while Ukraine says they are legitimate acts of self-defense in the war that Russia started with its comprehensive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
