Severe power outage in eastern Russia
Power outages occurred in at least two regions in Russia’s Far East on Friday after authorities conducted previously planned region-wide blackout drills.
People reported getting stuck in traffic jams, shopping malls and elevators in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky regions, where the city of Vladivostok is located.
Previously, the Ministry of Energy of the Primorsky Krai announced that it had held a “planned emergency exercise in connection with the shutdown of a high-voltage power line”.
“As part of the exercise, a situation center was set up to build cooperation to quickly restore power to consumers,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Far Eastern Distribution Grid Company DRSK, which took part in the exercises, said The outages were attributed to an “equipment failure” in one of the units of the Primorskaya thermal power plant.
Acting Minister of Energy of Primorsky Krai, Yelena Shish called In comments to the Kremlin-affiliated Telegram news channel Shot, the outage after the exercise was described as a “coincidence.”
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