Ukraine restores power after fire wipes out Odesa substation
The power to critical infrastructure has been restored after a fire broke out at an overloaded substation in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on 4 February.
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Ukraine, Odesa: The power to critical infrastructure has been restored after a fire broke out at an overloaded substation in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Saturday, 4 February.
The fire left nearly 500,000 people without electricity, a top official said.
The blaze erupted earlier in the day and is a new blow to the country’s ailing energy grid, which missile strikes have hammered for months.
Officials said repairs could take weeks. The government said it would appeal to Turkey for help.
“Power to all critical infrastructure has been restored. The city will therefore have water and heat,” Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote on Facebook late in the day.
Odessa regional governor Maksym Marchenko said practically all of the city had lost power after the incident and that about 500,000 people faced outages as of Saturday afternoon.
That represents about half of Odesa’s pre-war population of one million when it was Ukraine’s third-largest city.
Source: South China Morning Post