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Russia announces power outage in Zaporizhzhia after Ukrainian attack

The Russian authorities announced power outage early Tuesday morning in the Zaporizhzhia region due to a Ukrainian shelling that targeted equipment at high-voltage stations in the northwestern part of the region.Governor of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Yevgeny Balitsky said on his telegram account that as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, high-voltage equipment in the northwestern part of Zaporizhzhia region was damaged, leading to a power outage across the entire area.He added that the regional Ministry of Energy was instructed to activate backup power sources as quickly as possible, and that healthcare facilities in the region have been switched to backup energy sources.Two days earlier, Ukraine announced it had launched a drone attack on Russian air bases.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 117 drones were used in the attack on Russian bases.For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that fires broke out in several aircraft after drones were launched in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, located in the Russian Arctic and eastern Siberia.The Ministry also said the attack targeted other airports in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions, near the Chinese border in Russia's far east, but the attacks were repelled.

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