https://sagire.online/topic/critical-infrastructure/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/606ed20f/https://sagire.online/wire/606ed20f/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300Drone attacks across Sudan have killed at least 14 civilians and injured several others, while strikes on electricity infrastructure have triggered widespread power cuts and disrupted clean water supplies. The latest attacks killed eight people in Um Dibo, in El Sunut locality, West Kordofan, on Monday evening, and wounded three. On Tuesday, at least four people were killed and more than 10 injured when a drone struck a fuel station in the central market in El Abbasiya Tagali, South Kordofan. Fifteen substations have been targeted since early October, according to Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese rights group. The Merowe Dam, with a capacity of 1,250 megawatts, is now the last major source of electricity in the country, providing more than 70% of Sudan’s electricity, according to an employee of the Electricity Holding Company. The Arab League condemned repeated attacks it attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on energy facilities in Khartoum, El Gezira, Sennar, El Gedaref, River Nile and Red Sea states.SudanAfricaDronesCritical infrastructureConflict https://sagire.online/wire/05399389/https://sagire.online/wire/05399389/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300The president of Cuba's National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, Antonio Rodríguez, said that interruptions in water networks affect 2,681,770 residents, 66% of them for electrical reasons and 25% because of broken pumping equipment, according to the EFE agency, in a text republished by the Paraguayan outlet ABC Color. President Miguel Díaz-Canel called the water supply problem “grave and complex” and said that large-scale investments to solve it require time, while immediate difficulties are being addressed. The worst-affected provinces are Havana, with about 536,000 residents facing supply problems, and Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Matanzas, Artemisa and Pinar, with about 200,000 each. Díaz-Canel attributed the problem to objective causes — the US blockade, the energy crisis, aging networks — and also to the “negligence, indolence and lack of coordination” of the authorities.CubaLatin AmericaCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/b59550e1/https://sagire.online/wire/b59550e1/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia’s Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to officials. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions, leaving emergency outages in many cities. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Telegram that it hit two power stations in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions and said it downed 709 Ukrainian drones across 14 regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. In southern Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack started a fire at a distribution facility of Ozon, in the town of Adygeysk in the Republic of Adygea, regional head Murat Kumpilov said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he hoped Trump would continue his peacemaking efforts after the Democratic victory and treated any changes in Congress as a domestic US matter: “President Trump continues to exercise his powers. We sincerely hope that he will also continue his peacemaking efforts.”RussiaUkraineConflictEnergyDronesCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/a542269f/https://sagire.online/wire/a542269f/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:23:00 -0300A Russian missile destroyed Dnipro’s hospice on Monday night, and nearly 50 terminally ill patients were transferred to other facilities; the oldest was 90 years old. In Kharkiv, a hospital was hit and 73 people were wounded, most of them elderly patients, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian strikes on an aid center, a hospice and a hospital killed at least 38 civilians and injured scores of others in 24 hours. Kyiv’s water supply was entirely cut off “due to enemy attacks and damage to the capital’s energy infrastructure,” the supplier Kyivvodokanal said, and the entire metro network was suspended on Tuesday. Russia also struck energy infrastructure in nine regions, affecting water and heating. Zelensky said Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight across the country, and three thermal power plants of Ukraine’s largest private energy company were out of operation, according to the company. The UN human rights monitoring mission said the aid distribution at the school in Komyshuvakha had been highly publicized and that the attack “seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.”RussiaUkraineCritical infrastructureEnergyEastern Europe https://sagire.online/wire/fb583c26/https://sagire.online/wire/fb583c26/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:24:00 -0300Syrian authorities said they arrested two members of a Hezbollah cell and seized explosives allegedly intended for use on the Homs refinery, the last facility operational after the civil war. The state agency SANA reported the foiled plot on Sunday, and in early October Damascus had reported sabotage attacks first against an oil pipeline and then a gas one.SyriaHezbollahCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/c5045611/https://sagire.online/wire/c5045611/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:21:00 -0300A suspected cyberattack hit grocery stores in at least nine European countries on Monday, and the European Union (EU) warned of a deliberate attempt to disrupt the bloc's food supply chain. European Agriculture and Food Commissioner Christophe Hansen said the incidents are “a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers' confidence.” The Paris prosecutor's office counted around 700 victims in October's attack on French supermarkets, and around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, along with a smaller number of shops in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.European UnionCybersecuritySupply chainsCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/6884c974/https://sagire.online/wire/6884c974/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:21:00 -0300The United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre assesses it as highly likely that AI-powered malware will have been used in a ransomware attack on UK critical infrastructure by 2028. The center chief, Richard Horne, said the United Kingdom will likely face AI cyberattacks on critical infrastructure by 2028, from criminals and states — including China and Russia.United KingdomCybersecurityArtificial intelligenceCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/406c12a8/https://sagire.online/wire/406c12a8/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:22:00 -0300Syria's special services said they exposed a terrorist plot against an oil refinery in the city of Homs, according to the TASS news agency. Suicide vests, makeshift explosive devices, electronic equipment for remote detonation and detailed maps of the facility were seized from the detainees.SyriaEnergyCritical infrastructureMiddle East https://sagire.online/wire/91b4c53c/https://sagire.online/wire/91b4c53c/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:22:00 -0300Drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the Haya electrical transformer station and a nearby oil pumping station on Saturday in eastern Sudan, setting fires and damaging the facilities. The oil facility sits on the pipeline transporting crude to the Bashayer port on the Red Sea coast. Early this Sunday, a drone strike hit the Abu Hamad power station in River Nile State in northern Sudan, setting off a fire and loud explosions, according to eyewitnesses cited by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.SudanCritical infrastructureConflictEnergyAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/ef5530b5/https://sagire.online/wire/ef5530b5/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:22:00 -0300Drone attacks left about 200,000 families without electricity in Dnipro and the surrounding region and more than 80,000 families in the Kyiv region, according to Interfax-Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian Shahed drones struck a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv and four electrical substations in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to UNN.UkraineRussiaEnergyCritical infrastructureConflictEastern Europe https://sagire.online/aden-frente-de-novo/https://sagire.online/aden-frente-de-novo/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:47:00 -0300The Houthis fired at the airport one day after it reopened and at the compound where Yemen’s recognized government sits. What is being contested is the state’s own address, and the bill lands on residents stockpiling food and looking for a way out.YemenHouthisSaudi ArabiaThe GulfCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/d1afd4e5/https://sagire.online/wire/d1afd4e5/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:22:00 -0300The problem on the network of France's biggest telecoms provider Orange first hit at 11:37 a.m. on Monday and lasted until 8:30 p.m., with outages of up to nine hours for some customers, Orange France CEO Jérôme Hénique told Le Figaro, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) — at the core of the outage was a software bug in Nokia's code, new to Orange and “extremely complicated to find”.FranceCritical infrastructureTechnologyEurope https://sagire.online/wire/94dc31de/https://sagire.online/wire/94dc31de/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:22:00 -0300At least 69 people were killed when two trains collided near Urda, a town close to Toledo in central Spain, according to Al Jazeera — only 10 months after another collision on the same line, in Adamuz near Cordoba, killing 46 people; next month's snap poll “is no longer the contest it was”, as Pedro Sánchez is pressed to defend the government's safety record, according to the Guardian.SpainEuropeCritical infrastructureElections https://sagire.online/wire/d6afb27d/https://sagire.online/wire/d6afb27d/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:23:00 -0300The Renfe train traveling from Madrid to Seville, with 397 passengers on board, struck the rear of the stationary Iryo train, which carried 147, on Wednesday morning near Urda in the province of Toledo, according to the BBC. The collision killed at least 69 people and injured dozens, and Spain began three days of national mourning. Audio recordings between drivers and the control center released on Thursday appear to show the Renfe train was cleared to move even though the Iryo train had stalled about 25 km ahead; according to the transport minister, the Renfe train was ordered to proceed in error. Emergency crews continued operations at the site, with the death toll at 69, France 24 reported.SpainTransitCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/3d83c54f/https://sagire.online/wire/3d83c54f/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:23:00 -0300Oscar Puente told reporters in Madrid that the red signal was triggered by a computer communications failure, which automatically stopped traffic, and that an erroneous decision was then made to restart the Renfe train. At least 68 people died when a Spanish high-speed express slammed into a stationary train on Wednesday, Spain's second fatal rail crash this year and Europe's deadliest since 2013, according to France 24. Sánchez said the tragedy will be investigated and that the country will strengthen high-speed rail safety if needed to rebuild confidence in the system.SpainEuropeCritical infrastructureTransit