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Russia’s nighttime attack targets energy grid while Ukraine shoots down drones 24/27

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According to the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, the Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 24 of 27 Russian Shahed-131/136 drones in 12 regions on the night of July 6.

Russia launches suicide drone attacks on Ukraine almost every night, often targeting energy infrastructure.

Russian forces launched the drones for the one-way attack from occupied Crimea and Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the report said, while Ukrainian air defense units, mobile fire groups and electronic warfare units were busy repelling the attack.

“Last night, the Defenders of Heaven managed to defeat 24 Shaheds in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv,” the statement says.

In the attack, Russian drones targeted a power plant in Sumy Oblast, which led to power outages for residential and industrial customers in the region and in certain districts of Kharkiv Oblast, according to Ukraine’s electricity transmission system operator Ukrenergo.

“This morning, power was restored for most consumers. Urgent repairs are being carried out,” the statement says.

The Energy Ministry reported that as a result of the attack in the morning, 100,400 customers in 348 settlements in the Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts in northeastern Ukraine were temporarily without electricity.

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