Dozens of towns in the Odessa region without electricity

Energy infrastructure

Dozens of towns in the Odessa region without electricity

Russian drone attacks have been affecting the Odessa region for years. Now there is massive damage to the energy infrastructure again. At the same time, Ukraine continues to attack Russia.

According to authorities, dozens of towns in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa on the Black Sea are without power following massive Russian drone attacks. There is damage to the energy infrastructure in Odessa and the region of the same name, said the civil defense and the public prosecutor’s office.

In Odessa, fires broke out in a power plant and in a three-story building in a hotel and restaurant complex. According to civil defense, a woman was injured and two people were rescued. It was said that 44 towns in the Odessa region were without power after the attacks.

The Ukrainian government accuses Russia of wanting to plunge the country into darkness and cold in the fall with targeted attacks on the energy infrastructure in order to trigger panic among the population and destabilize the situation. With the attacks, Moscow also wants to increase the pressure on the leadership in Kiev to agree to a peace agreement according to Russian dictates. Ukraine refuses to surrender.

In its defense against the Russian invasion, Ukraine again attacked targets in Russia. The Defense Ministry in Moscow reported the downing of 42 Ukrainian drones on Saturday night, most of them in the Volgograd region.

In the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), parts of a downed drone crashed into residential buildings, school buildings and a kindergarten, said Governor Andrei Bocharov. Windows were broken there. A man was injured. The region’s health ministry said three children were also taken to hospital with stress reactions.

Russia has been waging a destructive war of aggression against Ukraine for more than three and a half years.