{"id":663975,"date":"2025-12-31T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:54:11","slug":"moscow-blackout-as-devastating-ukraine-strike-plunges-russian-capital-into-darkness-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/663975\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow blackout as devastating Ukraine strike plunges Russian capital into darkness | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow has been plunged into darkness as <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> hits the Russian capital with a devastating strike, impacting over 600,000 people. According to Ukrainian reports, drone strikes have disrupted residential houses and tower blocks plunging huge swathes of the Russian capital into complete darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the blackout shows street lights have also been affected with only car headlights lighting up the city on a cold and dark winters night. Posting to X, one account claiming to be monitoring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> conflict posted: \u201cRussian channels are reporting that large portions of Moscow are currently without power, amidst a large-scale drone attack currently underway against the Russian capital by Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iuliia Mendel, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/volodymyr-zelensky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>\u2019s former press secretary, also posted online, adding: \u201cTotal blackout hits Moscow region is reported on social media: over 600,000 people plunged into darkness for more than four hours \u2014 no electricity, no mobile signal, total isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u2018Drone threat declared across the oblast right now.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2151878\/zelensky-defies-trump-us-troops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Ukraine<\/a> hasn\u2019t officially claimed responsibility for the attack, Ukrainian drones were reportedly seen heading towards the Russian capital moments earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Other reports suggest that a fire at a local electricity substation may have also caused the outage, although this may have still been the result of a drone attack.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/12\/30\/thousands-left-without-power-moscow-drone-strike-25936699\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Metro<\/a> also reports that the Russian military managed to down more than 100 drones in the four days leading up to the attack, with some heading towards Moscow, something confirmed by Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow airport is also thought to have had to suspend flights while the drones headed into Russian airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow has been plunged into darkness as Ukraine hits the Russian capital with a devastating strike, impacting over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1312,202719,202717,12,332,202718,657,36373,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-663975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-electricity","9":"tag-electricity-substation-fire","10":"tag-moscow-blackout","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russian-capital-darkness","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-ukraine-drone-strike","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115812399061933340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}