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Night Strikes on Odesa Turn Power Grid Into a Front Line and Leave Civilians Exposed

Russian forces hit Odesa and the wider region overnight with what Ukrainian officials describe as dozens of missiles and drones, damaging homes, cars and infrastructure and injuring at least eight people. The attacks have disrupted electricity and halted electric transport in parts of the city, turning a key Black Sea hub’s civilian grid into another battlefield asset.

A night of strikes on Odesa has again pushed civilians and basic services into the center of the war, with damage to residential buildings, cars and energy infrastructure leaving parts of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port city without power on the morning of 9 August. Regional and military authorities in Odesa reported that Russian forces carried out a large combined attack on Odesa region overnight, using what they described as several dozen missiles and attack drones, including ballistic, anti-ship and anti-radiation systems. Local officials said that at least six people were injured in the city of Odesa itself when residential buildings were damaged and vehicles caught fire across several districts.…

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