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Saturday, December 13, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Major Russian attack on Ukrainian power grid leaves thousands without electricity
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In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on December 13, 2025, a fire truck is parked next to a burning building following an air attack at an undisclosed location in the Odesa region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)
Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa and the surrounding region are suffering major blackouts after a large overnight Russian attack on the power grid across the country.
President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia had attacked Ukraine with over 450 drones and 30 missiles.
“The brunt of the attack was on our energy system, on the south and Odesa region,” he writes on Telegram, adding that thousands of families in seven regions across Ukraine were left without power.
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