The key facts
- The accident on the 35 kV power line occurred at 04:07 on November 9, leaving fewer than a thousand people without power
- By 10:00 Moscow time, all 114 transformer substations had been restored
- Drone debris fell on a residential building in Vsevolozhsk, with one fatality; the fire at the KINEF plant in Kirishi was contained
Power supply restored within six hours
A nighttime drone attack on November 9 caused an accident on a 35 kV overhead power line in the Leningrad Region. According to Governor Alexander Drozdenko, the outage occurred at 04:07 and affected five settlements of the Vsevolozhsk District: Vaganovo, Kokkorevo, Borisovo, the Ladoga Lake station, and the settlement of Gribnoye. Fewer than a thousand people were temporarily left without electricity. By 10:00 Moscow time, specialists had brought all 114 de-energized transformer substations back into operation — restoring the power supply took about six hours. «As of 10:00, all 114 transformer substations are energized and the power supply has been restored,» the head of the region reported, as reported by Life.ru.
Other consequences of the same attack
According to Life.ru, during the same nighttime attack drone debris fell on the roof of an apartment building in Vsevolozhsk. The governor later reported the death of a woman who was in an apartment on the top floor. The remaining residents were evacuated, and a temporary shelter for those affected was opened at the city House of Culture. In addition, in Kirishi, a drone hit the grounds of the KINEF plant, where a fire broke out; the blaze was contained. The city's heating supply equipment was damaged, but specialists managed to restore heat supply and electricity generation.
