{"id":42623,"date":"2026-01-09T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/russian-belgorod-and-oryol-plunged-into-blackout-after-drone-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:11:12","slug":"russian-belgorod-and-oryol-plunged-into-blackout-after-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/russian-belgorod-and-oryol-plunged-into-blackout-after-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Belgorod and Oryol plunged into blackout after drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of January 9, a number of Russian cities came under drone attack. In Belgorod, a blackout occurred after a missile attack, and in Oryol, explosions were recorded in the area of the thermal power plant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F01%2F08%2F1767915575-2545-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Russian Belgorod and Oryol plunged into blackout after drone attack\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On the night of Friday, January 9, a number of Russian cities came under drone attack. This was reported by UNN with reference to local public pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Thus, Belgorod and the surrounding villages were covered by a blackout after a missile attack, with reports of strikes on substations and thermal power plants.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Belgorod, a blackout after a missile alert<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; reads one of the messages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><video controls=\"true\"><source src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/video\/2026\/01\/08\/1767915267-3989.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/source><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Orel also came under attack &#8211; explosions occurred in the area of the thermal power plant.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Good missiles once again arrived in Orel. There will be good. Reports of explosions in the area of the thermal power plant and problems with electricity<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; eyewitnesses write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><video controls=\"true\"><source src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/video\/2026\/01\/08\/1767915060-1609.mov\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/source><\/video><\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the damage to the Oskolneftesnab oil depot in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation and a logistics warehouse in the Donetsk region. The oil depot supplied fuel to the occupying army.<\/p>\n<p>In Belgorod, missiles attacked a thermal power plant: the city is experiencing power outages15.12.25, 01:30 \u2022 5947 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of January 9, a number of Russian cities came under drone attack. In Belgorod, a blackout occurred after a missile attack, and in Oryol, explosions were recorded in the area of the thermal power plant. On the night of Friday, January 9, a number of Russian cities came under drone attack. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}