Russia sees power outages rise by third as Ukraine scales up infrastructure airstrikes
Electricity pylons in Moscow, Russia, February 10, 2025. Photo: Yevgenia Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Russia has experienced an average of 34% more monthly power outages and electrical grid failures so far in 2025 than it did during the entirety of 2024, data collected by Novaya Gazeta Europe has shown. From January to October 2025, 4,198 power outages were reported in Russia, a 12% increase on the 3,749 recorded during the whole of 2024, most of which were isolated cases.