Strike drones target Odesa and region, city left without electricity and water
Blackout in the city after a Russian strike (Photo: Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
Odesa and the Odesa region came under a massive attack by strike drones. Parts of the city were left without electricity and water, according to Odesa Regional Military Administration head Oleh Kiper and the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram.
A group of strike drones launched a large-scale attack on Odesa at around 12:30 a.m. Kyiv time on October 11.
Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, had earlier warned of the Shahed drone threat on his Telegram channel.
A short time later, a post appeared reporting the operation of air defense systems.
“Residents of the Odesa region! Air defense is active. Stay in safe places,” he wrote.
At the same time, residents began reporting power outages in various districts of Odesa, including Slobidka, Moldavanka, and Prymorskyi.
An RBC-Ukraine correspondent reported that water supplies were cut off in the city’s Kyivskyi district.
An hour after the start of the drone attack, an all-clear was announced in Odesa and the surrounding region.
Massive attack on energy facilities on October 10
On the night of October 10, Russian forces carried out a massive strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
As a result of the attack, power outages were recorded in the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, and Odesa regions, as well as in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Part of Rivne was also left without electricity.
Around midnight on October 10, electricity supply was fully restored in the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, according to DTEK.
Earlier, DTEK had reported that power had been restored on the left bank of Kyiv.
Meanwhile, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko urged residents to take seriously forecasts suggesting that a similar attack could occur again in the coming days.
