Russian-appointed officials in Crimea reported electricity restrictions in several settlements overnight on Oct. 24, while Sergei Aksyonov also said water restrictions were imposed amid a power-line emergency.
Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to Crimea’s Russian-appointed head, said an emergency on power lines outside the peninsula had limited electricity in several settlements. He later reported that power across the republic had been restored. Aksyonov attributed an outage on main power lines outside the region to a drone attack.
Sevastopol’s Russian-installed governor, Mykhailo Razvozhayev, said an attack on energy facilities outside the city briefly cut its electricity. He said social facilities switched to backup power.
In Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, the regional operational headquarters said drone debris fell in Temryuk district and crews were dealing with a fire at a substation in the hamlet of Bely. It said workers were restoring power to three settlements and reported no injuries.
The Kyiv Independent identified the site as the Taman substation based on imagery from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), describing it as a link in electricity supply to Crimea. NASA says FIRMS detects thermal anomalies that can have several causes; imagery alone does not confirm damage or its cause. The regional announcement named Bely but did not identify the facility as Taman or connect the fire to Crimea’s outage.
The Kyiv Independent also cited residents reporting renewed outages in Simferopol, Yalta and Alushta after the restoration announcement.
