Power outages hit towns in Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, occupation authorities report

Targeting of the Starobeshivska TES in Donetsk Oblast caused half of Mariupol, Donetsk, Yenakiieve, and Horlivka to be left without power, as reported by the local Telegram channel AteoBreaking.

Denis Pushilin, the leader of the “DPR,” or “Donetsk People’s Republic” — a sham republic set up by the Kremlin in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast — claimed that overnight Ukrainian forces attempted to damage the energy system of the region.

“Unfortunately, not everything was shot down due to the scale of the strikes,” Pushilin said, apparently referring to drone strikes. He added that the resulting damage had caused partial power outages in some areas of the sham Donetsk republic.

“Some cities and districts are without electricity,” Pushilin wrote. As a result, heat is not supplied from a number of boiler rooms, and emergency crews are working. The government has been instructed to work in (emergency) mode.”

There was also a large drone attack on Moscow by Ukrainian drones on the night of Nov. 26. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that using air defense means, 11 drones were supposedly destroyed over the territories of Moscow, Tula, Kaluga, and Bryansk oblasts.

In Tula, a high-rise building was damaged, and a 44-year-old man received and injury to his left foot from flying debris.