Belgorod without electricity. Over 220,000 people injured after Ukraine's attack

Over 220 thousand people were left without electricity in the Belgorod Oblast, in southwestern Russia, after a Ukrainian attack that caused a substation to fail, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the oblast's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov.

“Repair brigades are working. Restoring power supply will take at least four hours,” Gladkov wrote on Telegram.

The attacks on Russian energy facilities are a response to the Russian strike on Ukrainian power plants on Saturday morning. In Ukraine, most residents only have electricity for a few hours a day.

In the city of Belgorod, with a population of approximately 400,000, located near the border with Ukraine, the authorities decided over the weekend to evacuate some residents after Ukrainian missile and drone attacks on energy infrastructure facilities. The attacks caused an interruption in heating supplies to several hundred residential buildings. (PAP)

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