<figure id="attachment_3234407" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3234407" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3234407" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/be4e16b9-ukraine-1.jpg" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3234407" class="wp-caption-text">A group of children walks with flashlights in the dark underground crossing during the electricity cut-off in downtown Kyiv. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
KYIV: Ukraine&#8217;s southern port city of Odesa and the surrounding region suffered major blackouts on Saturday after a large overnight Russian attack on the power grid that left more than a million households without power.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had attacked Ukraine with more than 450 drones and 30 missiles.
&#8220;The brunt of the attack was on our energy system, on the south and Odesa region,&#8221; Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram, adding that thousands of families in seven regions across Ukraine were left without power.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said it was one of the war&#8217;s largest attacks on Odesa, where supplies of electricity and water had been knocked out. She said supplies of non-drinking water were being brought in to areas of the city.
Ukraine&#8217;s interior minister Ihor Klymenko said more than a million households across Ukraine had been left without power and five people had been wounded as a result of the attack.
Ukraine&#8217;s power grid operator said a &#8220;significant number&#8221; of households were without power in the southern regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv, and that the Ukrainian-controlled part of the frontline Kherson region was totally without power.
Moscow has regularly bombarded Ukraine&#8217;s energy system since its 2022 invasion, causing hours of daily blackouts countrywide.
Russia&#8217;s defence ministry said on Saturday it had conducted strikes on Ukrainian energy and military-industrial facilities.

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Ukraine’s Odesa suffers major blackouts after Russian attack

More than 450 drones and 30 missiles targeted the southern port city’s power grid, leaving over a million homes without power.

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