Almost 44,000 electricity subscribers in Kursk Oblast were left without power during the week following attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to Russian Foreign Ministry official Rodion Miroshnik.
Miroshnik, an ambassador-at-large for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, detailed the disruption to regional energy supplies in statements reported by the TASS news agency.
Attacks by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles caused partial power outages across 53 settlements in four districts of the region. Miroshnik stated that strikes in the Oboyansky, Belovsky, Bolshesoldatsky, and Oktiabrsky districts affected more than 13,700 consumers.
A separate interruption in part of the Belovsky district left approximately 1,650 consumers without electricity. In addition, power supply was disrupted across the Zheleznogorsky and Dmitrievsky districts, where 143 settlements and more than 28,600 consumers lost electrical service.
Districts affected by power cuts
The total number of affected customers across the targeted districts reached nearly 44,000 over the course of the week, as local utility infrastructure suffered damage from aerial strikes.
Kursk Oblast is a Russian federal subject situated in western Russia along the border with Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Kursk, and the region is divided into administrative districts, known as raions, which encompass rural villages and regional municipalities.
Role of foreign ministry and media
Rodion Miroshnik serves as an ambassador-at-large for the Russian Foreign Ministry, a diplomatic post tasked with handling specific international assignments and monitoring security developments. TASS, headquartered in Moscow, is Russia's major state-owned news agency responsible for broadcasting official government statements.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly called drones, are aircraft flown remotely without an onboard human crew. They have been deployed extensively throughout the ongoing regional conflict to conduct aerial reconnaissance and target infrastructure networks.
Statements on energy truce
The reported damage to the electric grid in Kursk Oblast comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously commented on the possibility of an energy truce between Ukraine and Russia.
Zelensky has served as the president of Ukraine since 2019, leading the nation through the conflict. His comments regarding potential agreements on utility and infrastructure protection mark a broader discussion surrounding energy security in the region.
