A Blackout Occurred In The Kursk Region For The Second Time In A Week

• 6.11.2025, 17:02

Because of the VSU attack.

On Thursday, November 6, Ukrainian troops hit a substation in the Borovskoye microdistrict in the town of Rylsk, Kursk Region, leaving some local residents without electricity and heating, Kursk Governor Alexander Khinshtein reported. This is the second such attack since the beginning of the current week, writes The Moscow Times.

"As a result of the strike, the boiler house and transformer were temporarily out of operation: 7 houses with about 150 people living in them were left without heat, and another 90 houses had their electricity supply disrupted," he explained. Hinshtein assured that emergency crews have already restored the damaged nodes in Rylsk - the fifth most populous city in the region - and the supply of heat and light has been resumed.

At the beginning of the week, a Ukrainian drone raid on the Kursk region damaged one of the substations, which led to power outages in more than eight settlements, Hinshtein reported. Power supply was lost in Rylsk, as well as in the Glushkovsky and Korenevsky districts, which are powered by the Rylsk substation. The shutdown then affected more than 16 thousand consumers.

Later Kursk governor reported a UAV strike on another substation - in the village of Belaya. As a result, in the evening of November 3, "the fuses on the transformer caught fire," and electricity was lost in seven settlements of the Belaya district.

Before that, the AFU attacked the Rylya substation on October 27. Then there was a fire in nearby outbuildings; the authorities claimed that the facility itself was not damaged. On October 24, the substation was hit four times. The eastern microdistrict of Rylsk and the Oktyabrskoye settlement were left without light, Khinshtein reported.