15.11.2025
In Russia, things are burning and exploding more and more often at night. And after that, residents lose their electricity and heating. Officially, the Russian authorities rarely acknowledge the attacks by Ukrainian drones, but panic is spreading among local residents on social networks. Now they fear that this winter will be a real test. People are stocking up on emergency lights and generators, and local authorities are preparing heating points.
Read more about this in the OBOZ.UA article.
Without water and sewage
Residents of the Kursk region recall with horror how one night after the arrival of Ukrainian drones they were left without electricity, water, and even sewage.
“We were so confused that we couldn’t figure out what to do. It’s dark all around, there’s not a drop of water in the tap, we can’t even go to the toilet. We can’t boil a kettle to drink tea and warm ourselves, there’s no heating either. What kind of life is this, like in the Stone Age,” a pensioner from the city of Lgov was indignant.
The Russians were so upset that when the governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, arrived, they asked him to develop some kind of regional guide on how the population should act in case of emergency situations. So that there would be step-by-step instructions.
The cunning Khinshtein turned the spotlight on the city mayor, who began muttering something about doing it together with the emergency services.
“We have already given orders to prepare step-by-step instructions. This is not about instilling fear. Our armored train should simply be on the backup track. We will develop instructions and use them if necessary,” Khinshtein later reported.
However, it is worth noting that the border areas of the Kursk region are so neglected that utility accidents occur here constantly. It is officially recognized that there are hundreds of kilometers of worn-out networks in these areas. If you type “Kursk region left without water (heating, gas)” into Google, you can see news for many years, which reports on breakthroughs and accidents.
Therefore, the memo will be useful to Russians in any case. Officials at all levels enthusiastically took up the matter and stated that the creation of such a document of regional significance would begin “with an analysis of existing municipal instructions, after which a single template would be developed.”
Ukrainian drones attack Russian cities
Several regions of Russia have already been subjected to attacks by Ukrainian drones on energy and heating systems. For example, on November 3, a substation in Rylsk was attacked, leaving 15,000 subscribers without electricity.
On November 6, a boiler room and transformer were damaged in Rylsk, leaving 90 homes without electricity and seven more without heat. On the same day, part of the city of Kurchatov was left without electricity.
On November 8, the CHP in Kursk was also attacked, leaving residents of 10 settlements and 2,500 consumers in the Korenivskyi district without electricity.
Drones also attacked the Voronezh region, and residents of the regional center complained about interruptions in heat and electricity.
But most often, residents of the border Belgorod and Kursk regions are left without electricity and heating.
We will be without electricity for two days.
Residents of the Belgorod region complain about the lack of air defense. For example, local resident Lyudmila Tarasova even wrote to the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, saying: “Do you have the opportunity to contact Moscow with a request to add air defense to protect Belgorod and the district?”
To which she was told that the situation in the region is under constant control of the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense, the government, and other federal bodies. And Gladkov is supposedly personally reporting to Putin about what will happen.
In border regions, due to the lack of street lighting, everyone is urged to wear reflective elements on their clothing, as drivers may not notice people on the road. In addition, Russians complain about mass internet outages, as well as the inability to find minibus schedules on Yandex maps.
Governor Gladkov has even already warned: when it gets colder, the energy supply situation may deteriorate to the point that all responsible persons, including teachers, will have to provide “heating points” in schools.
Also in the Belgorod region, some electric trains were canceled, and minibuses were launched instead. Residents were told that this was allegedly due to attacks by Ukrainian drones. Although the residents themselves are sure that this was due to power outages.
“If a drone attacked an electric train, why can’t it attack a minibus or a bus? This is nonsense. They just have problems with the voltage in the power grids or something else, and we have to suffer,” a resident of Belgorod was indignant.
The region decided that local residents should solve all electricity problems on their own.
“They started going around private houses and checking if we had a generator. Where did we get a generator from, in a large family? They said that we ourselves should think about how we would live without electricity, they scared us that we could even sit without light for two or three days. If we don’t buy a generator, they will simply transport us to a temporary accommodation point at a school or gym, where we will live and warm up,” said the mother of five children.
In Voronezh, after the attack on the energy facility, the lights have already been turned off in some areas several times. Residents say that although the outages are called “planned”, in fact, this has never happened before. And all this is connected with the explosions in the city. The authorities deny this information.
“Of course, they don’t say what and how they damaged it. But everyone understands that it is connected with Ukrainian drones,” says a local pensioner.
Residents are discussing purchasing emergency lights and power banks to make the next power outage more comfortable. They are also stocking up on water and food.
The same problem occurred in Taganrog on November 9. Although the authorities assured that nothing was damaged, three drones hit the local CHP plant at once, and a column of smoke rose over the city at the time. People complained about problems with heat and electricity.
Demand for generators and charging stations has skyrocketed in the Kursk region. In addition, residents of Voronezh are complaining that they still had no mobile phone service for a day after the threat of a drone attack was lifted.
Mafia land was always a backwater shithole, but Ukraine is making sure it’s even more so, and will not improve for decades, if ever. The average cockroach is satisfied enough if he or she has a hole to shit into and a liter of antifreeze to guzzle on a cold winter day.
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