(See 'Zelensky, difficult hours in Odessa...', from 9.46 pm) (ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 10 - Repairing the electricity system damaged by the drones launched by the Russian army last night over Odessa and the region could take up to two or three months: "If you have the opportunity to temporarily leave the city and the areas left without electricity, then it is worth doing it": this is the message to residents launched by the Department of Energy Systems of the Odessa region after the communication from the electricity operator state Dtek who warned of long times for power to be restored.
The Ukrainian media reported it. "Odessa and almost the entire region remain without electricity," Dtek said in a statement.
The Ukrainian president, in his evening video message, said that "the situation in the Odessa region is very difficult. The city and other places in the district are in darkness: more than one and a half million people in the region are without electricity. Only the critical infrastructures
are connected, as far as current can be supplied".
(HANDLE).