The official stated there was “no menace to energy provide”. (File)
Moscow:
Authorities in Moscow-annexed Crimea stated Thursday {that a} thermal energy plant on the peninsula was focused by an in a single day drone assault, however claimed it was not badly broken.
“Right this moment at evening there was a UAV (unmanned aerial automobile) assault on the Balaklava thermal energy station,” the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev stated on Telegram. “The transformer is minimally broken. There have been no casualties,” he added.
The official stated there was “no menace to energy provide” and that “the incident doesn’t have an effect on the facility provide of Sevastopol and the peninsula.”
He stated the transformer that caught hearth through the supposed assault “was underneath upkeep and didn’t work”.
“Staff on the plant shortly handled the fireplace,” he added.
His assertion got here as Ukraine presses with a counter-offensive within the south.
Moscow’s forces preventing in Ukraine have in latest weeks hit the nation’s energy provides.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
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