Power restored to Ukraine's Odesa following major Russian attack on energy infrastructure

Published on 11/10/2025 - 11:25 GMT+2

Around 50 towns successful Ukraine's Odesa portion were near without powerfulness connected Saturday greeting pursuing an overnight Russian drone onslaught connected vigor infrastructure, according to determination authorities.

Ukrainian backstage vigor steadfast DTEK reported that powerfulness has since been restored to the 240,000 households affected.

Regional politician Oleh Kiper said that too vigor infrastructure, 2 residential buildings and a edifice were damaged. One person, a 47-year-old woman, was injured.

Power was besides restored to implicit 800,000 Kyiv residents connected Saturday, pursuing a abstracted onslaught by Russia connected the Ukrainian powerfulness grid a time earlier, which caused blackouts crossed overmuch of the country.

DTEK that "the main enactment to reconstruct the powerfulness supply" had been completed, but that immoderate localiSed outages were inactive affecting the Ukrainian superior pursuing Friday’s "massive" Russian attacks.

Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko described the onslaught arsenic “one of the largest concentrated strikes” against Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure.

Ukraine’s aerial unit said Saturday that its aerial defenses intercepted oregon jammed 54 of 78 Russian drones launched against Ukraine overnight, portion Russia’s defence ministry said it had changeable down 42 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian territory.

Over the past day, astatine slightest 4 radical were killed and 18 injured successful Russian attacks connected Ukraine, according to determination authorities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Friday accused Russia of "taking advantage" of the satellite focusing its attentions connected the Middle East to strength attacks connected Ukraine and people vigor facilities. He said "this is simply a caller grounds of Russian cowardice – to intensify violent attacks astatine specified a moment, to onslaught astatine the lives of our people."

"There tin beryllium lone 1 effect to this," helium added, "and that is much force, much aerial defence to support our captious infrastructure and much unit connected Russia to marque them genuinely accountable for everything they do."

The vigor assemblage has been a cardinal battleground since Russia launched its all-out penetration much than 3 years ago.

Each year, Russia has tried to cripple the Ukrainian powerfulness grid earlier the bitter wintertime season, seemingly hoping to erode nationalist morale. Winter temperatures tally from precocious October done March, with January and February the coldest months.