In Berdiansk, explosion at substation cuts off power to Russian maintenance base

04.08.2025 19:40

Ukrinform

Late in the evening on August 3, an explosion occurred at a power substation in the temporarily occupied Berdiansk, which supplies electricity to the industrial facilities of the former Berdiansk Harvesters PJSC, resulting in a power outage at the Russian maintenance base.

This was reported to Ukrinform by a well-informed source in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

"As a result of the explosion and subsequent fire on the transformers, the substation that supplied electricity to the Russian military equipment repair facility was put out of operation. The final consequences of the explosion and the extent of the damage are being clarified," the source said.

According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, residents were the first to report the powerful explosion on social media.

“Later, eyewitnesses shared videos and information on social media that one of the city's substations had caught fire for unknown reasons, causing a power outage in some of the surrounding streets,” the source said.

Military intelligence noted that after the occupation of the city, the Russian military turned the factory's workshops into a large repair base and storage facility for military equipment, weapons, and Russian army personnel.

As reported by Ukrinform, the Main Intelligence Directorate gained full access to servers containing all documentation of the occupying “authorities” of Crimea.