Occupied Sevastopol was left completely without electricity after an overnight drone attack on energy infrastructure in Russian-occupied Crimea, the city’s so-called “governor,” Mikhail Razvozhayev, said on Telegram on Wednesday. According to Razvozhayev, the city temporarily lost power following what he described as an enemy attack on energy infrastructure.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “As a result of the enemy attack on our energy infrastructure, the city temporarily remained without electricity,” Razvozhayev said. Ukrainian monitoring channels and local witnesses reported a series of powerful explosions across Crimea throughout the night. According to the Telegram channel Krymsky Veter, the main target of the attack was the Balaklava thermal power plant in Sevastopol, one of the key power stations on the peninsula. The scale of damage at the plant is still being assessed. Razvozhayev attempted to reassure residents, saying the city would withstand the outage. “They will not intimidate us with the absence of light. We have lived through worse, and we will stand now as well,” he said, while also urging residents to conserve phone battery power. Explosions were also reported overnight in Bakhchysarai, Kerch and near Mount Ai-Petri, where a radar station of a radio-technical battalion of the Russian Aerospace Forces is located. The blackout came after occupation authorities announced “preventive” rolling power cuts across Crimea on the evening of Tuesday. Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the Russian-installed head of the annexed peninsula, said restrictions were being introduced in advance.