As of: March 25, 2024, 10:08 a.m
By: Stefan Krieger
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Russia carries out air strikes on southern Ukraine.
There are power outages in Odessa and the surrounding area.
The news ticker about the Ukraine war.
Drones on
Odessa
: Port city partially without power
Rostov in
southwest Russia
: Ukrainian drones shot down
The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties Russia and Ukraine and their allies.
In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update from March 25th, 10:00 a.m.:
There were several explosions in Kiev in the early hours of the morning.
Shortly before, an air alarm had been triggered.
“Explosions in the capital.
Go to shelters immediately,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Update from March 25, 9:50 a.m.:
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian air defense shot down eleven drones launched from Ukraine over the Rostov region in southwest Russia.
Earlier, the region's governor, Vasily Golubev, said on Telegram that two power units of the Novocherkassk power plant were out of operation after a fire early in the morning.
The fire was quickly extinguished and there were no injuries.
He did not provide any information about the cause of the fire.
Firefighters clear the aftermath of a rocket attack by Russian troops in Odessa.
(Archive photo from March 15) © IMAGO/Nina Liashonok
War in Ukraine: Combat drones attack the port city of Odessa
First report:
Kiev - Russian combat drones damaged power supply systems in the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions in southern Ukraine on Monday night (March 25th).
As a result, there was a power outage in some parts of the port city of Odessa and its surrounding areas, as the Ukrainian military in the region announced.
According to the city administration, local public transport with trams and trolleybuses in Odessa had to be stopped.
Nobody was injured.
The energy supplier Ukrenerho said that a substation was also damaged and caught fire in the Mykolaiv region.
According to the military, debris from a drone also fell onto a two-story residential building there.
It caught fire.
Eleven people were injured, two of them seriously.
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The Russian army has been increasing its air strikes against Ukraine's energy supply for several days now.
This caused major problems, especially in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The repairs to the network there would take about another week, said Ukrenerho boss Volodymyr Kudryzkyj on Ukrainian television.
Russia reports attack on electricity and thermal power plant
On the Russian side, there was a fire on Monday night at the Novocherkassk power and thermal power plant, the largest plant of its kind in the Rostov region.
Unofficial information here indicates a Ukrainian drone attack.
The regional administration officially announced that the cause of the fire was being investigated.
The fire had been extinguished.
Two units of the power plant and two transmission lines were switched off.
Ukraine has been fending off a large-scale Russian invasion for over two years.
It has increased the range of its drones in recent months and is primarily attacking targets in the Russian oil industry.
(speaking with agency material)