Repair teams working to restore electricity to Odesa, Ukraine after fire

• Many households were without electricity in the Ukraine city of Odesa.
• Repair teams are working around the clock.
• Such disruptions “could not have happened”.

Following a fire that left hundreds of thousands of inhabitants without electricity, repair teams were working around the clock to restore power systems in the Black Sea port of Odesa, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

Although the fire was to blame for the widespread outage, it was one of many that struck Ukraine’s system since Russia focused on destroying electrical facilities as part of its invasion of Ukraine in October.

“Repair work is going on round the clock. The situation at this time is that hundreds of thousands of people in the Odesa region are without power,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

Such disruptions in Ukrainian cities “could not have happened,” according to Zelenskiy, before the start of Russian attacks over several weeks on power-producing facilities, some of which involved dozens of missiles at once.

Zelenskiy did not specify the length of the repair work, but Ukrainian officials have previously stated that it might take weeks.

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