Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on November 9, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
A Ukraine drone strike temporarily disrupted utilities in Voronezh, Russia. No injuries were reported, and power was restored quickly.
(Reuters) -An overnight drone attack by Ukraine temporarily disrupted power and heating supplies in the southwestern Russia city of Voronezh, a regional governor said on Sunday.
The attack on Voronezh, the administrative centre of the wider Voronezh region, caused no injuries, Governor Alexander Gusev said on the Telegram messaging app.
Several drones were suppressed by electronic warfare systems, sparking a fire at a utility facility that was quickly extinguished, he added.
Safety measures led to brief changes in central heating temperatures in some homes and to short power cuts in parts of the city, but supplies later returned to normal, Gusev said.
The Russian defence ministry did not mention any drones downed over the Voronezh region in its daily Telegram update on Sunday. The ministry reports how many drones its units destroy, not how many Ukraine launches.
The ministry said a total of 44 Ukrainian drones were destroyed or intercepted overnight, including 43 over the border region of Bryansk and one over the Rostov region in southern Russia.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Ukraine has stepped up long-range drone and missile strikes inside Russia, hitting oil refineries, depots and logistics hubs it says feed the Kremlin's war machine.
Moscow calls the attacks terrorism, while Ukraine says they are legitimate acts of self-defence in the war that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by William Mallard and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
A drone strike is an attack carried out by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is remotely controlled or autonomously operated. These strikes are often used in military operations to target specific locations.
Electronic warfare refers to military actions that use electromagnetic spectrum to control the spectrum, attack the enemy, or protect one's own forces. This includes jamming enemy communications and radar.
A regional governor is an official who governs a specific region or province within a country. They are responsible for local administration and implementing national policies at the regional level.
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