Power goes dark across a Russian resort city under drone warning, a week after a beach strike killed seven
Residents of Gelendzhik began reporting citywide power outages on the afternoon of August 10, the news outlet 93.ru reported. A warning of possible Ukrainian drone attacks had been in effect in the city since early morning; sirens were sounding periodically, and the beaches were closed.
Surrounding villages and Novorossiysk also lost power. In Krasnodar, more than 70 traffic lights stopped working because of an emergency power outage.
Gelendzhik’s municipal control center said the outage occurred “due to the activation of an automated load-shedding system at a higher-level grid operator.”
Krasnodar Krai’s emergency response headquarters said power would be restored within two hours.
Ukrainian drones have been attacking Krasnodar Krai regularly in recent weeks. On August 3, one crashed and exploded on a beach in Arkhipo-Osipovka, a village in the Gelendzhik area, killing seven people, including four children, and injuring dozens more.
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