Drone attack hits Sevastopol power hub as fire erupts near Crimea airfield
Drones attack Russian-occupied Sevastopol overnight (Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram)
Drones targeted Sevastopol’s main electrical substation
overnight on Aug. 18, with two impacts reported near the facility and a brief
power outage, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reported.
Subscribers to the channel reported gunfire near the
Sevastopol 330/220/110/35 kV substation starting at 1:15 a.m.
By morning, a downed drone was lying about 3 meters from the
substation grounds, where personnel from Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry
were working. The attack unfolded in bursts until 4 a.m., with the main phase
lasting from 1:25 to 2:40 a.m.
The substation routes power from the Balaklava Thermal Power
Plant and a mobile gas-turbine power plant. It was also targeted last week,
although the extent of any damage remains unknown.
Crimean Wind said earlier attacks on June 24 and 25
destroyed the facility’s main transformer.
Separately, a fire was reported near the Kirovske military
airfield in Crimea on Aug. 18. Warehouses and hangars containing military
equipment are located nearby.
Reports on July 2, 2025, said satellite images documented
the aftermath of a Ukrainian attack on the Kirovske airfield in occupied Crimea
overnight on June 28. The images showed evidence of an extensive fire in
helicopter parking areas and at two air defense positions. They also showed
damage to infrastructure and buildings across the air base.
Ukraine’s SBU Security Service confirmed it had struck the
Russian military airfield. The agency said the attack destroyed a Pantsir-S1
air defense system and three helicopters — an Mi-8, an Mi-26 and an Mi-28.
The agency also reported secondary detonations and said the
strikes targeted aircraft, air defense systems, ammunition depots and drones.
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