A balloon that came down inside the Aksa Tashkent power plant area in the Kibray district left several districts of the capital without electricity. The object hit the main transformer on the site and damaged it. Power cuts followed in multiple parts of Tashkent, though they lasted only a short time. The outages were brief before engineers dealt with the damage. Video of the episode circulated online, showing the balloon drifting onto the plant grounds before the strike. Aksa Tashkent runs generating capacity that feeds the city grid, which is why one damaged transformer rippled across several neighbourhoods. The incident is a reminder of how little it takes, one stray object on one substation, to darken swaths of a major city.