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Posted on November 24, 2025
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Russian air defences intercepted 10 drones near Moscow after a Ukrainian strike on a power plant, causing temporary heating disruptions.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defences shot down 10 drones en route to Moscow on Monday, the Defence Ministry said, a day after a Ukrainian strike on a power plant cut off heating in a town near the capital.
From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Moscow time (0500-1700 GMT), 50 Ukrainian drones were downed across the Moscow, Bryansk, Kaluga and Kursk regions, as well as Crimea and over the waters of the Black Sea, the ministry said in a statement.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said emergency services were working at sites where debris from drones bound for the capital had fallen.
Ukraine's drone strike on Sunday on the Shatura Power Station, 120 km (75 miles) east of Moscow, forced authorities to switch on backup power and deploy mobile heating systems to the town of 33,000, where temperatures hovered around freezing.
On Monday, local governor Andrei Vorobyov said that the plant had resumed operations.
In recent weeks and months, there have been repeated power and heat outages in parts of Ukraine due to Russian attacks in the full-scale war that erupted in February 2022.
Ukraine has also hit some power and heating installations in Ukrainian regions controlled by Russian forces and in Russian regions neighbouring Ukraine.
But Kyiv has thus far not inflicted major damage on electricity and heat stations serving Moscow and the surrounding region, which has a population of more than 22 million.
(Reporting by Reuters; writing by Lucy Papachristou and Maxim Rodionov; editing by Andrew Osborn and Mark Heinrich)
A drone strike is an attack carried out by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can be used for military purposes, including targeting enemy positions or infrastructure.
Air defense refers to the measures and systems employed to protect a country's airspace from enemy aircraft or missiles, often involving radar and missile systems.
A power plant is a facility that generates electricity by converting various energy sources, such as fossil fuels, nuclear, or renewable resources, into electrical power.
Backup power refers to an alternative source of electricity that is used when the primary power supply fails, ensuring continuity of operations in critical situations.
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