{"id":56084,"date":"2025-10-21T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56084"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:46:09","slug":"russian-attack-cuts-power-to-hundreds-of-thousands-in-northern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/russian-attack-cuts-power-to-hundreds-of-thousands-in-northern-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Attack Cuts Power to Hundreds of Thousands in Northern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian bombardment of energy infrastructure cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in northern Ukraine&#8217;s Chernihiv region on Tuesday, with repairs unable to start due to the lingering threat of drone strikes, Ukraine&#8217;s energy ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the regional capital, which had a pre-war population of about 280,000, and the northern part of the region had totally lost power.<\/p>\n<p>Chernihiv has been hammered by Russian drone and missile attacks on its power infrastructure in recent weeks, causing regular blackouts and disrupting daily life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency crews in Chernihiv region are unable to begin work on restoring power supply due to continuous attacks by Russian drones,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>It accused Russia of launching drones to circle above damaged facilities to make it impossible to carry out repairs and &#8220;deliberately prolong the humanitarian crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chernihiv&#8217;s acting mayor Oleksandr Lomako said Moscow was seeking to deprive local residents of power and heat ahead of the cold winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian bombardment of energy infrastructure cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in northern Ukraine&#8217;s Chernihiv region on Tuesday, with repairs unable to start due to the lingering threat of drone strikes, Ukraine&#8217;s energy ministry said. It said that the regional capital, which had a pre-war population of about 280,000, and the northern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56087,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56084\/revisions\/56087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}