A drone strike temporarily caused blackouts and cut heating to parts of Voronezh, regional governor Alexander Gusev said. He said several drones were electronically jammed during the night over the city, home to just over one million people, sparking a fire at a local utility facility that was quickly extinguished.<\/p>\n
Russian and Ukrainian news channels on Telegram claimed the strike targeted a local thermal power plant.<\/p>\n
A missile strike late on Saturday also caused \u201cserious damage\u201d to power and heating systems supplying the city of Belgorod, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on Sunday morning. Some 20,000 households were affected.<\/p>\n
Belgorod has a population of around 340,000 and is the administrative centre of a region of the same name.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Sunday that its forces destroyed or intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones during the night that flew over two south-western regions, Bryansk and Rostov. The statement made no mention of either the Voronezh or Belgorod provinces, nor did it specify how many drones Ukraine launched.<\/p>\n
Moscow and Kyiv have traded almost daily assaults on each other\u2019s energy targets as diplomatic efforts to stop the almost four-year war have had no impact on the battlefield.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue the war. Russia wants to cripple the Ukrainian power grid and deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Kyiv officials say is an attempt to \u201cweaponise winter\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone strike temporarily caused blackouts and cut heating to parts of Voronezh, regional governor Alexander Gusev said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-29171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}