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Hundreds Of Thousands In Moscow Experience Rare 'Total Blackout' After Drone Wave
Something very rare just happened in Moscow. Large swathes of Russian capital were plunged into darkness Wednesday after a swarm of inbound Ukrainian drones resulted in a fire at a key electrical substation.
People reported widespread outages across the Moscow region, including a "total blackout" in areas southeast of the capital, leaving homes without electricity for over four hours.
Power was cut to hundreds of thousands of residents in and around Moscow, though estimates have varied from 100,000 to up to 600,000 people impacted.
Social media videos and images showed apartment buildings, streets, and and businesses in areas like Zhukovsky, Lyubertsy, Lytkarino, and Ramenskoye, in total darkness.
Moscow authorities confirmed they deployed an army emergency crews with mobile generators to darkened city sectors as repairs were being made.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at least 100 drones were intercepted between 5:00 and 7pm that night. At least eight were shot down directly over the Moscow region - though drones were observed over various parts of the country, as has become an almost nightly norm.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hundreds-thousands-moscow-experience-rare-total-blackout-after-drone-wave