Residents of the city of Zhukovsky, 40 kilometers southeast of Moscow, and surrounding towns reported losing electricity late at night.
Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), briefly commented on Telegram, “Moscow Oblast is going dark.”
The Zhukovsky administration attributed the outage to an “emergency situation in the power system” but offered no further details.
Shortly before, various Russian Telegram channels reported a “largest ever” swarm of Ukrainian UAVs flying through Belgorod Oblast, with some messages claiming as many as 700 drones targeting key energy infrastructure facilities in southern Russia.
“The quantity of [Ukrainian] drones [flying] though the Volokonovsky District [in Belgorod Oblast] is huge,” one local channel said at 9:00 p.m. Kyiv time.
“It is the first time we record something like this.”