Incidents recorded in Russia across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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Overnight on 18 October 2026, St. Petersburg and Leningrad region came under a drone attack. Russian outlets ASTRA and Baza reported that the Vostochnaya electrical substation in the village of Novosergievka, Vsevolozhsk district, near the boundary with St....
Drones attacked a Yandex data centre in the Vladimir region of Russia on 11 October 2026, according to Yandex, which said its infrastructure was damaged and the data centre had been completely shut down. Yandex said no one was injured, but some of its...
A fire broke out in a building in Sasovo, Ryazan Region, Russia, that houses the Sasta machine-tool plant and a Yandex data centre, according to reports dated 8 October 2026. Yandex said the fire resulted from a drone attack and affected part of the data...
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A news report dated 2 May 2026 says that, from Friday night into early Saturday, a fire broke out at the 220 kV Kanash substation in Kanash, in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. A separate fire was reported at the office of the energy supply company Alatyrskoye...
A transformer fire occurred at the Severnaya thermal power plant substation in Vladivostok on 10 February, producing a bright flash and loud explosion reported by local residents on social media. The event caused an immediate blackout affecting approximately...
On the morning of 9 November 2025, an explosion and a fire were reported at a transformer substation in Taganrog, in Russia's Rostov region. A Telegram channel, Astra, stated that the T-25 electric substation exploded on the site of the former TagAZ plant....
A fire was reported on the territory of the Frolovskaya power substation in Russia's Volgograd region and was attributed to falling drone debris. Forces were said to have been sent to deal with the consequences. As of 23:30, no casualties or major destruction...
On 5 October 2025, Belgorod in Russia faced another widespread blackout, with power reported out in most districts and in an unspecified number of settlements in the region. Russian channels claimed a missile strike had allegedly hit the city's Luch...
A fire broke out at the Novaya substation operated by Rosseti North Caucasus in Makhachkala, Daghestan, on a Saturday morning. Officials said a technical failure followed overloaded power lines, damaging 23 cable lines and leaving more than 86,500 residents...
On the night of 13 May 2024, Russian officials were reported to have said that a power substation in the Lipetsk region caught fire during a drone attack. No injuries were reported, and emergency services were said to be working at the scene. A video...
Ukrinform reported that an electrical substation caught fire after an explosion in Stary Oskol, Belgorod region, on 18 January 2024. The report relayed a Telegram post by an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, which described unmanned aerial vehicle sounds, an...
On 23 January 2024, explosions and fires were reported in Vladivostok, and hundreds of homes were left without power. Local reports said substations on Novozhilova Street and in Tikhaya Bukhta Bay were on fire, and media reported that more than 250 houses in...
An explosion occurred at the Kalininskaya substation in Yekaterinburg, Russia, according to a Metro.co.uk video report published on 2 March 2024. Russian media reported that an improvised explosive device caused the blast and that security at the substation...
Residents of Volgograd, a city in southern Russia, reportedly heard an explosion at night, after which a fire was reported at the Sovetskaya electric substation. The reports were relayed by Ukrainian Pravda, citing the Astra Telegram channel and the Volgograd...
On 16 April 2024, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reported that a substation in Bryansk, Russia, had burned, with a transformer at a power substation described in the report as 110 kW destroyed. The report said military unit No. 33149, the 111th...
An explosion and a small fire were reported at a local electric substation in Lytkarino, near Moscow, on the night of 22-23 November 2023. Residents reported a bright flash at about 01:00, after which power was lost across the district. Early reports said...
A fire was reported at a substation in Smaznevo, in the Zalesovsky district of Altai Krai, Russia. The head of the district was quoted as saying the substation was on fire, that an emergency power outage affected the whole district, and that the fire was...
On 14 October 2022 a fire was reported at a substation in Belgorod, Russia, and electricity was lost in some districts of the city. The regional governor was reported as saying that a substation described as 110 kW caught fire after an attack, that a switch...
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