Odessa, Ukraine – A Russian drone attack overnight damaged an electricity facility near the southern city of Odessa, the governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, Oleh Kiper, said.
More than 29,000 customers were without power on Sunday morning.
Kipper wrote on Telegram that the most affected area is the city of Chornomorsk on the outskirts of Odessa.
The attack also caused destruction to residential homes and administrative buildings.
“Critical infrastructure runs on generators,” Kipper said.
He added that one person was injured as a result of the attack.
There has been no comment yet from Russia, which has been continuously striking critical infrastructure in Ukraine throughout the war that has been raging for 42 months.
For its part, DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private electricity producer, said on Sunday that a Russian attack overnight targeted four electricity facilities in the Odessa region in the south of the country.
This comes as the Ukrainian Air Force announced, in a statement via the Telegram application, today, Sunday, that the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces shot down 126 out of 142 drones launched by Russia during an air attack on the north, south and east of the country during the night.
The statement said that Russian forces launched attacks on Ukraine overnight.
This was done using 142 Shahed drones and other deceptive models.
It was launched from the Russian regions of Kursk, Milrovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
In addition to Chuda in Crimea, according to the Ukrainian national news agency Ukrinform.
In contrast, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 21 Ukrainian drones.
This was after a night attack.
The ministry said on Telegram that 11 drones were shot down over the Volgograd region in southern Russia.
While the rest were destroyed over the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions in the southwest of the country.
