(Reuters) -A Russian drone attack overnight damaged a power facility near the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, leaving more than 29,000 customers without electricity on Sunday morning, the region’s governor said.
Hardest hit was the city of Chornomorsk, just outside Odesa, where the attack also damaged residential houses and administrative buildings, said Oleh Kiper, the governor of the broader Odesa region, on the Telegram messaging app.
“Critical infrastructure is operating on generators,” Kiper said.
One person has been injured as a result of the attack, he added.
Reuters could not independently verify the report.
There was no comment from Russia, which has been striking Ukraine’s critical infrastructure continuously throughout the 42 months of the war that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A sweeping attack by Russia on Thursday that targeted many regions of Ukraine killed 25 people in Kyiv.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Jamie Freed)
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