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Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Robert “Madyar” Provdi, said on the afternoon of July 5 that the Ukrainian army had over the past two days attacked electrical substations in the annexed Crimea and on the territory of the Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions occupied by Russian forces.
“Minus 16 energy units in 48 hours. The Crimean switch is in the off position,” Brovdi wrote on his Facebook page.
The Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published a list of electrical substations successfully struck by the Ukrainian military. It has 10 electrical substations in Crimea:
- 330 kV substation “Zabadno-Krymskaya”, village of Karernoye
- PS 220 kV “Bakhchisaray”, Bakhchisaray
- PS 110 kV “Sake”, Sake
- 110 kV substation “Traktovoya”, Traktovoy village
- Substation 110 kV “Neva”, Neva village
- 110 KV “Zimino” substation, Zimino village
- 110 kV substation “Kovilnoye”, village of Kovilnoy
- Substation 110 kV “Stepnoe”, Stepnoe village
- 35 kV substation “Yani Kapu”, Yani Kapu (Russian authorities call this city Krasnoperekopsk)
- 35 kV substation “Slavyanskoe”, Slavyanskoye village
According to Brovde, the destruction of Russian air defense systems, “logistical and fuel starvation,” as well as the disabling of electrical and communications substations, should lead first to the continued isolation of the Russian army on the peninsula, and then to “the complete influx of colonists and collaborators.”
The Russian-appointed head of the Yevpatoria administration, Vitaly Oganesyan, said Sunday morning that “there is no electricity throughout the city, there is no water in most areas, and the tram lines do not work.” According to him, work is underway to restore energy supplies, but the timing of its completion is still unknown.
The city of Saki, near Evpatoria, was also left without electricity. “The situation is complex, emergency work is continuing, and the completion date of the work has not been set,” said Yulia Pridebylo, the Russian-appointed head of Psaki’s administration. According to it, the city will operate electrical generators at water and sewage plants for two hours, “to ensure minimum water pressure in the water supply networks.”
The authorities of the annexed Crimean peninsula did not publicly announce the cause of the power outage.
Power outages in Crimea are visible in nighttime satellite images published by NASA. Medusa studied a series of photographs over the past week, which show visual Decreased nighttime illumination in Evpatoria on July 2 and 3 (NASA uses UTC), and partial recovery on July 4. NASA currently does not have more recent satellite data.
In Crimea, for several weeks, there has been an acute shortage of fuel, which is used, among other things, for generators. Fuel supplies to the annexed peninsula are difficult due to attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces on the R-280 Novorossiya highway, the main supply route to the annexed peninsula.
War in pictures
Yevpatoria, like other settlements in the Crimean peninsula it annexed, has experienced frequent power outages in recent months. Russian-appointed authorities attributed the power outage to “technological disruptions.” The photos published by Meduza were taken in Evpatoria, which was left without electricity, on June 30, 2026.
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Vladimir (Yekaterinburg). Recently, an ad for war recruitment appeared on a billboard at the entrance to my house. My first thought as a war opponent was to tear up this ad, especially since we didn’t have any cameras nearby.
But then I thought a little and came to the conclusion that people now go to the front relatively voluntarily. What happens if employment declines? Most likely, there will be mobilization again and again, as in 2022, I will be touring different countries with my family for a year. Or worse, I won’t be able to leave and end up in prison or signing a contract under torture.
On the whole, I didn’t tear down this ad. I still don’t know if I acted and thought correctly. This will all likely end one way or another.