Did Russia use a steel-cutting drone against a Ukrainian power pylon for the first time in September 2026?

Yes. On September 30, 2026, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky on defense technologies, said Russia for the first time used a jet-powered drone fitted with a shaped-charge cutting warhead built to destroy high-voltage power pylons and steel bridge structures. He described a roughly 40-kilogram main charge plus four additional destructive modules and warned Moscow may aim the weapon at important high-voltage transmission lines.

The claim came amid what Ukrainian officials called the heaviest combined strike on energy infrastructure in months, with emergency outages reported in Kyiv and several oblasts. Source: The Kyiv Independent — Russia strikes Ukrainian pylon with steel-cutting drone for 1st time.

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