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The Russia-controlled portion of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia portion was experiencing exigency powerfulness blackouts on Friday (May 22, 2026), Russia-installed Governor Yevgeny Balitsky was quoted arsenic saying by the Kommersant newspaper.
However, captious infrastructure was moving arsenic usual, helium said, without providing further details, according to Kommersant. Separately, the Russia-appointed caput of the parts of the Southern Kherson portion held by Russian forces, Vladimir Saldo, said connected Telegram that nine areas were chopped disconnected the powerfulness grid aft drone attacks.
In the aboriginal hours of the morning connected Friday (May 22), Russian defence systems were moving to repel drone attacks implicit Moscow, the adjacent Yaroslavl region, and the Leningrad portion in the northwest, section authorities said on the Telegram messaging app.
Four drones headed for Moscow were downed, and exigency services were deployed to the area, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said connected Telegram, without providing details. There were nary casualties successful the regions of Yaroslavl and Leningrad, section Governors said.
All 3 regions, location to ample Russian vigor infrastructure, besides came nether drone attack earlier this week. Overall, Russia downed 217 drones overnight, Interfax newsagency said, citing the Defence Ministry.
In Ukraine’s bluish Sumy region, eleven radical were injured successful Russian shelling and drone attacks, including a 13-year-old boy, Ukrainian constabulary said on Telegram. Reuters could not independently verify reports of subject activity.
