Nearly 60,000 households in Ukraine were left without electricity after a wave of Russian drone strikes overnight on August 31.
Ukraine’s military said Russia launched 142 drones in a single night.
While most were halted, drones still struck at least ten locations.
Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, confirmed that four power facilities in the nation’s Odesa region were struck.
In total, about 29,000 residents in Odesa lost power.
Meanwhile this number also included the port city of Chornomorsk (Chore-no-morks), which was the hardest hit where homes, administrative buildings, and even critical infrastructure had to switch to generators.
One person was reported injured during the attack there.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, another 30,000 households, including parts of the city of Nizhyn, were also plunged into darkness after drones hit power grids.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed retaliation, saying Ukraine has prepared new deep strikes inside Russia, while also stressing that only Moscow wants the war that now took three and a half years, and pledged to keep up the pressure.
“We will continue our active operations in exactly the way needed for Ukraine’s defence. The forces and resources are prepared. New deep strikes have also been planned,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.