Massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea causes power outages in Sevastopol

Euronews ^ | Published on 17/05/2024 - 14:52 | By Euronews with AP

[MeganC]

Kyiv says it has had some success pushing back against a renewed Russian offensive, but Ukraine's defences are in dire need of resupply.

A massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea early Friday caused power cutoffs in the city of Sevastopol and set a refinery ablaze in southern Russia, Russian authorities said.

The drone raids marked an attempt to strike back during Moscow's renewed offensive in northeastern Ukraine, which has added to the pressure on outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces as they await delayed deliveries of crucial Western weapons and ammunition.

Ukraine has not commented on the attack nor claimed responsibility for it.

The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defences downed 51 Ukrainian drones over Crimea, another 44 over the Krasnodar region and six over the Belgorod region. It also said Russian warplanes and patrol boats had destroyed six sea drones in the Black Sea.

Moscow's claims could not be independently verified.

Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, which is the main base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet, said the drone attack damaged the city's power plant. He said it could take a day to fully restore energy supplies and warned residents that power would be cut to parts of the city.

"Communal services are doing their best to restore the power system as quickly as possible," he said in a statement.

Razvozhayev also announced that schools in the city would be closed temporarily.

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In Ukraine, the people are allowed to build churches, even Baptist churches. You sound like Pablo Escobar’s mother defending the Medellin drug cartel chief. She said, “He built parks and did things for the people.” And you gloss over Putin’s murders and invasions the same way, saying he passes laws that his Islamist contingents approve of. In fact, Ukraine is fighting a coalition of Mohammedans organized by Putin and we can see those Mohammedan mercenaries today occupying the Donbas and backing up Russian soldiers who are not motivated to fight without Chechens and other mercs from far-flung parts of the “Federation” keeping guns pointed at their backs.

The anti-LGBT stuff that Putin spouts is his beard for Moscow’s pedophile rings in addition to winning favor with Mohammedans. Boris Nemtsov was exposing many things about Putin. He was murdered before he could expose more. But we do have that video of Putin lifting the shirt of a boy so he could kiss his bare skin. Most of us find that more than just troubling.