Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted electricity and water supplies in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday, AFP reported, citing Russian and Ukrainian officials. Moscow's installed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said restrictions on electricity and water had been imposed following damage to the main power grids outside the peninsula. "As a result of an incident that occurred on the main power grids outside our region, caused by an enemy attack using a drone, restrictions on the supply of electricity and water have been put in place," Aksyonov wrote on Telegram, AFP reported. He did not specify how many households were affected in Crimea, which has a population of more than 2.5 million — yaani more than 25 lakh people.

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On the night of October 24, electricity disappeared in Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yalta, Kerch, Feodosia and many other settlements on the peninsula, Kyiv24 reported. In Sevastopol, only about 40% of the basic mobile communication stations were operational and trolleybus services had been halted, the Russian-installed head of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said, according to Kyiv24. Backup power at mobile stations lasts on average four hours, after which crews recharge the sources using mobile generators, Razvozhayev said. From 9:00 a.m. on October 24, water was supplied at reduced pressure in part of Sevastopol's Leninsky district — on Ostryakova, Khrustalova and Mykola Muzyka streets — with water deliveries organised for residents, and social facilities were operating on backup power, Kyiv24 reported. The timeline for full restoration was unknown.

Source: Kyiv24, Oct 24, 2026

The monitoring channel Crimean Wind reported a fire at the Taman substation in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, through which electricity is supplied to Crimea via the energy bridge across the Kerch Strait, Kyiv24 reported. Reporting the same overnight attack, the Kyiv Independent said satellite imagery from NASA FIRMS showed damage at the Taman substation, the Telegram channel Exilenova+ reported that "the entire peninsula is without electricity", and the internet watchdog NetBlocks reported widespread outages. Local authorities later claimed power had been restored in multiple cities, but Crimean Wind reported renewed blackouts in Simferopol, Yalta and Alushta, the Kyiv Independent reported, adding that it could not independently verify the extent of the blackouts or the reported attacks. A separate drone strike was also reported in Russia's Rostov Oblast, where Governor Yury Slyusar claimed drones damaged a transformer substation in the Myasnikovsky district, causing blackouts in nearly 130 homes, the Kyiv Independent reported.

Source: Kyiv Independent via South-East Europe Times, Oct 24, 2026

There is currently no independent confirmation of the causes of the accident, and Ukrainian military officials had not commented on the situation so far, Kyiv24 reported. In the wider overnight exchange, Russia's defence ministry said its forces had shot down 616 Ukrainian drones across more than 20 regions, while Ukraine's air force said Russia had launched at least 126 drones at Ukraine overnight, of which 101 were shot down, and two people were wounded in Kyiv, AFP reported — both figures are the respective militaries' claims. Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and the peninsula has since been a regular target of Ukrainian attacks, AFP reported.

Source: AFP via DailyGraph, Oct 24, 2026