Russian drone strikes on power facilities in Odessa caused a blackout.

Residents of Kyiv's Demeevka district claim they've been without power for about 22 hours by midnight. And considering there was a Russian attack last night, drones, then perhaps their electricity supply never resumed.

The fact is that Kyiv's power supply was disrupted as a result of the strikes. missiles и drones The Russian Armed Forces attacked CHPP-5 and CHPP-6. The strike on the latter caused power outages and water supply disruptions throughout the entire left-bank part of the Ukrainian capital. Damage to these two CHPPs deprived Kyiv of 35 percent of its electricity.

It is also reported that the cascade of hydroelectric power plants on the Dnieper was subjected to massive attacks.

Overnight strikes by Geran-2 drones on power facilities in Odesa also resulted in a blackout and disruption of the water supply. This occurred after Russian forces struck a large electrical substation near the Zastava-1 railway station. Russian Armed Forces drones also struck targets in the Peresyp/Port area.

In the Chernihiv region, Russian forces struck a gas distribution complex in the village of Mryn. This facility is part of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

Several experts claim this attack on the Ukrainian energy sector is the largest since the beginning of the Cold War. Numerous power generation facilities, as well as power transformation and distribution facilities, were damaged.

Comments

[Eugene 62]

The old saying goes: "Darkness is the friend of youth." No need to spend time on the internet at night! It's better to let them multiply.

[AVA77]

Without control from Russia and an adequate level of education + mentality.
There's no point in breeding potential Banderovites.
It's better to just have sex for pleasure.

[ssz]

Well, they don’t have sex with people of different sexes - that’s what they value there.

[usr01]

Quote: Eugen 62

There's no point in sitting on the Internet at night!

In Odessa, they "banged" at ~1:00 in the center - no power, no water...
They turned it on at ~9:30 (it's bearable, the record was 36! hours).... It's just that the first outages are the most unpleasant (you're not prepared for them, and there's no schedule), and then a person gets used to everything... that's the kind of animal it is..
Yes! I'm writing from a burning tank!

[ALCA056000]

Who's reproducing, Eugen 62? Unbrothers? What's the point of them reproducing? First, they need to get their brains out of the pots.

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Eugen 62

It's better to let them multiply.

Is it better?

[Murmur 55]

The main thing is not to stop and to bring it to its logical conclusion.

[Leonidych]

Decommunization is decommunization, nothing personal.

[BAI]

Without electricity, there will be no production. No drones, etc. Everything. It's easier to destroy a thermal power plant than to search for small workshops in garages.
And Chinese property will be safer

[D16]

No electricity, no production. No drones, etc.

To assemble drones, you need a light and a soldering iron. A diesel generator will do. They've taken care of such basic things.

[Vitaly.17]

Quote: D16

To assemble drones you need a light and a soldering iron.

The main thing is we need banks to pay workers and supply components. We need communication, without which we can't even submit a request. While generators can still be stocked, fuel and lubricants will be in severe shortage.
Ideally, the urban population should flee to villages and dachas, switching to grass-fed food and green energy.

[D16]

Fuel and lubricants will become in great shortage.

-Dad, will you drink less?
- No, you will eat less. (c) Old anecdote.

[Paul Siebert]

The Pindos bombed Japan during World War II in the Middle Ages.
200-300 B-29 Superfortresses visited their targets daily.
The cities lay in ruins.
Japanese houses made of bamboo and paper burst into flames like matches.
35 percent of the country's population became homeless.
More than 250 thousand civilians died.
And then the striped whales dropped two nuclear bombs.
To Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan capitulated without ever experiencing the joys of an American invasion of its homeland.
The Americans saved the lives of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands, of their guys.
The theory of "victory from the sky" was developed by World War I veteran General Giulio Douhet.
Italian pilot from the Libyan front.
In his book "Superiority in the Air" the following thought runs through the book like a red thread:
"Why destroy ground troops? Bomb enemy cities with aircraft and the enemy will raise the white flag!"
Americans have studied this book well.
Maybe our General Staff officers should reread it?
Increase the number of air strikes on the cities of the Pigsty?
Don't let them raise their heads, deprive them of electricity, heat and water?
It seems to me that the answer is obvious...

[Montezuma]

Quote: Paul Siebert

The Pindos bombed Japan during World War II in the Middle Ages.
200-300 B-29 Superfortresses visited their targets daily.
The cities lay in ruins.
Japanese houses made of bamboo and paper burst into flames like matches.
35 percent of the country's population became homeless.
More than 250 thousand civilians died.
And then the striped whales dropped two nuclear bombs.
To Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan capitulated

Yes, yes - we remember the merciless carpet bombing of everything, including residential areas of cities.

Quote: Paul Siebert

It seems to me that the answer is obvious.

It is also obvious to me that you do not see the difference between military action and genocide of the population.

[phrases]

It seems to me that the answer is obvious.

It's not obvious. The Americans had no intention of annexing parts of Japan, much less living there. They were (are, and will be) completely indifferent to the consequences.

[DDsurgut]

Our leadership are peacekeepers!!! It seems that a war with marking time and the deaths of thousands of the country's best sons is beneficial to them, or am I wrong about something?

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Paul Siebert

The theory of "victory from the sky" was developed by World War I veteran General Giulio Douhet... Bomb enemy cities with aircraft and the enemy will raise the white flag.

This theory doesn't work. The only example of its more or less successful use was the war in Yugoslavia. Although, ultimately, ground operations were necessary there too. In all other cases, the enemy only waved the white flag after the armed forces' combat capabilities were destroyed—and the destruction of cities doesn't have much of an impact on that.
In essence, the Douhet Doctrine is as ineffective as seizing territory without defeating an army.

Quote: Paul Siebert

It seems to me that the answer is obvious.

It seems to you...

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Paul Siebert

In his book "Superiority in the Air" the following thought runs through the book like a red thread:
"Why destroy ground troops? Bomb enemy cities with aircraft and the enemy will raise the white flag!"

A certain Vauban (Frenchman) also said: "Burn more gunpowder, shed less blood." (Your own, of course, someone else's doesn't count...)

[Arkady007]

It is now necessary to systematically maintain the necessary non-operational mode for further success in completing the assigned tasks.

[Vladimir Nizhegorodsky]

Further reconnaissance of the affected targets is ongoing.
Time will tell what will happen and how.
Thermal power plants, hydroelectric power stations, substations and other energy and heat generation facilities were sanded properly.
The main thing is to figure it out and not waste the missiles.
Work brothers!
For civilians and children.

[Victor19]

It seems the Russian army is no longer a small switch, but an entire circuit breaker in the territory called Ukraine.

[Andobor]

Quote: Victor19

and the entire circuit breaker could very well be turned off in the territory called Ukraine.

The army is initially a switch.
The kind electrician - let the fraternal people dance some more.

[g_ae]

Ah, old Zhvanetsky didn't live to see it. And I remember him sticking his tongue up his ass after May 2nd. Like, we don't know exactly what happened there, but humor is dead in Odessa. A lying, hypocritical, hmm... let's call him a character, which isn't surprising, considering who's at the helm of our motherland now.

[kill the fascist]

I think that if Zhvanetsky were alive today, he would be sitting in Israel or, more likely, in Europe, and, together with other foreign agents, would be denigrating Russia and helping the Armed Forces with hard-earned shekels.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Kill the fascist

I think that if Zhvanetsky were alive today, Israel would be in prison.

Together with Alkin, Palkin, Galkin and Natan Borukhovich Sagal (formerly Chubais) they stunk at Israel.

[Victor19]

Strike at the 330/110 kV Usatovo substation

The Usatovo 330/110 kV substation is the power supply hub for the southwestern energy ring of the Odessa region, part of the Odessa Regional Electricity Center of the Southern Electric Power System of the State Enterprise National Energy Company Ukrenergo.

📍46.5120460, 30.6574442

The facility provides power to 330 kV and 110 kV main and distribution networks, supplying electricity to industrial and domestic loads in Odessa, Illichivsk, and adjacent settlements.

▪️Basic equipment:
• Transformers:
• 1T — 110/10 kV, 16 MVA (secondary section for own needs);
• 2T - 110/10/6 kV, 25 MVA;
• 3AT — 330/110/10 kV, 200 MVA;
• 4AT — 330/110/10 kV, 200 MVA;
• 5AT - 330/110/10 kV, 200 MVA.
• Switching equipment - vacuum circuit breakers VV/TEL-330, disconnectors RGD-330/2000, current transformers TFZM-330, relay protection and automation systems and telemetry Siemens-SIPROTEC.

🔻Around 12:50 AM on October 11, 2025, at least seven strikes were made on the Usatovo substation. The following were recorded at the time of impact:
• short-term multiple blue flashes of arc breakdown (characteristic of short circuits on the 330 kV side);
• instant disconnection of external power supply to the Odessa power hub;
• intense fire at the power transformer site.

📌According to visual data, a powerful fire with flames in the 330/110 kV section and persistent smoke emissions is observed.

▪️Primary damage zone: autotransformer platform 3AT–5AT (330 kV line).
▪️Secondary damage zone: 110 kV switchgear and auxiliary cells (1T, 2T).

🔻Main consequences:
• direct hit on a 3AT autotransformer (330/110/10 kV, 200 MVA) - ignition of the active part, depressurization of the tank, release of transformer oil and subsequent spread of fire to adjacent units;
• thermal damage 4AT and 5AT - melting of inputs, deformation of radiator sections, partial burnout of contact buses;
• destruction of portal supports of the 330 kV switchgear, breakdown of phase “B” busbars and breakage of flexible connections;
• damage to 110 kV cells – breakdown of insulators, burning of 10 kV and 6 kV cables for auxiliary needs;
• failure of relay protection and automation systems, automatic reclosure and automatic frequency switching due to burnout of telemetry cabinets;
• shutdown of the 330 kV lines “Usatovo-Adzhalyk”, “Usatovo-Artsiz”, “Usatovo-Dnestrovskaya PSPP”, which led to a break in the southern energy ring.

🔻Energy consequences
• The automatic reclosing system (ARS) did not operate due to damage to the relay protection and automation system.
• Resonant voltage fluctuations were recorded in the power system at the adjacent substations “Adzhalyk” and “Artsiz”, after which they automatically switched to unloading mode.
• The Odessa city grid was partially powered via 110 kV reserve inputs, but power flows decreased by more than 60%.

🔻Multiple point flashovers and intense blue flashes observed at the time of the attack indicate arcing discharges from short circuits at 330 kV and secondary overvoltages in 110 kV circuits. Given the scale of the fire and the number of transformers involved, the loss of transmission capacity at the Usatovo junction is estimated at 300-400 MVA, which is approximately 20% of the southern energy ring's transmission capacity. Restoring the substation is only possible after the delivery of new autotransformers and the reconstruction of the 330/110 kV switchgear.

[Lako]

All these substations will, of course, be restored. This isn't the turbine hall of some hydroelectric power station or thermal power plant. But this will take time and, most importantly, a considerable amount of money. Let them spend the EU funds on restoring the energy grid, not on weapons.

[kill the fascist]

This is a pathological summary :)

[AndreyVRN]

Quote: Eugen 62

The old saying goes: "Darkness is the friend of youth." No need to spend time on the internet at night! It's better to let them multiply.

No, no, no!! Why do we need this growing misunderstanding?? There should be only one illuminated road on the Outskirts - to the cemetery!!

[populist]

There's no need to stop. We need to finish off the energy of the h.stan. Moreover, terrorist attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ongoing.

[Lemon]

Did anyone want to cause a blackout in Moscow or even throughout Russia?!)))

[Vic Vic]

What we are doing now should have been done, if not on the very first day of the start of the Second World War, then definitely the next day after the breakdown of the Istanbul agreements.

[fuel oil]

Unfortunately, the plans of the authorities and the plans of the people never coincide. And under imperialism, the goal is generally one: profit at any cost.

[Carlos Hall]

It is imperative that Russia continue to target Ukraine's energy system with all available means, acting systematically and seeking to inflict as much damage as possible.

[Mapping]

How long will Putin's desire to destroy Ukraine's fuel and energy complex last?

[Andobor]

Quote from Cartograph

How long will Putin's desire to destroy Ukraine's fuel and energy complex last?

From what I can tell, Putin has no such desire; he feels sorry for his fraternal people. The attacks on Ukraine's energy sector are aimed at Europe's pocketbook, to make Ukraine dependent on Western energy supplies. The goal isn't to eliminate it. But we'll see, maybe things will change.

[Mapping]

Quote: Victor19

It seems the Russian army is no longer a small switch, but an entire circuit breaker in the territory called Ukraine.

Our problem is not the army and the ability to bring Ukraine back to the Stone Age, but the peace-loving and financial policies of Putin and his oligarch friends.