What happened

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi said USF units — "Madyar's Birds," Rarog, Nemesis, K-2 and the 1st Separate Center — struck 13 energy nodes in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory over the preceding 48 hours, part of the ongoing "Crimean Circuit Breaker Off" ("Crimean Switch Off") drone campaign against occupation-area power infrastructure that Brovdi said began on 1 July. Confirmed targets spanned substations from 110 kV to 750 kV, including the 750 kV Pivdennodonbaska substation near Kremenivka (occupied Donetsk region), the 330 kV Myrna substation near Mariupol, a Melitopol substation, the Azovmash substation, the Botiyieve wind-power-plant substation, the Zuyivka thermal-power-plant substation, the Natashyne gas distribution station in occupied Crimea, and the Yakymivka–Tranzytna traction substation. Brovdi said blackouts followed in Mariupol, Melitopol, Henichesk, Berdiansk, Zuhres and Prymorskyi Posad, among other occupied areas, and that the campaign had disabled a cumulative 201 energy nodes in occupied territory since 1 July. This is a Ukrainian military self-report relayed via Telegram/Facebook by the USF commander; no independent damage assessment, casualty report, or Russian-side confirmation was cited, and restoration timelines were not published.

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