Several settlements in Kursk Oblast were left without
electricity after a UAV struck a power substation near the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russian media outlet Important Stories reported on Aug. 9.
Alexei Smirnov, the Russian governor of Kursk Oblast, said that a fire broke out at “a transformer substation” after “debris from a Ukrainian fixed-wing UAV” crashed into it.
The power outage has affected the town of Kurchatov, where the Kursk NPP is located, as well as the settlements of Volokno, Vorozhnevo, and Priamitsyno. Locals have complained on social media about disruptions in water supply.
Additionally, the repost states that public transport in Kursk City has been down for over four hours, possibly due to an electricity deficit in the region.