[Regnum] Hurricane wind damaged power line supports, leaving several districts of the Kherson region without power. This was reported on August 10 by the region's governor Volodymyr Saldo.
“150 kV power lines in the Zaporizhia region were damaged due to hurricane winds and heavy rain,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Saldo noted that the settlements of Genichesk, Novotroitsky, Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka and part of Ivanovo municipal districts of the Kherson region were left without electricity.
The head of the region added that an operational headquarters has been created to solve the problem, and repair teams are working on site.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in July the Russian Ministry of Energy announced that there were problems with electricity supply in four regions of Russia due to abnormally high temperatures. The outages occurred in the Rostov and Astrakhan regions, Adygea and Krasnodar Krai.
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