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Russia unleashes massive revenge attack on Ukraine by blitzing Odesa and leaving a million homes without power
RUSSIA has blitzed Ukraine’s port city of Odesa in a revenge attack for drone strikes on oil tankers.
An aerial barrage lasting several hours left a million homes without power and water.
A total of 465 drones and 30 missiles were fired.
The majority were shot out of the sky, but eight rockets and 33 drones struck 18 separate locations.
Debris from those destroyed mid-flight struck three other areas in the Black Sea port.
Four people were wounded in the attack — said to be the largest single onslaught on Odesa since the war began.
Before dawn yesterday hundreds had to queue for water.
Miraculously, no one was reported dead.
Fires broke out across the region as rescue workers risked their lives.
Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin had earlier vowed revenge after his oil tankers and rigs — the main source of funding for Russia’s illegal invasion — were targeted.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the Odesa blitz: “This is definitely not about ending the war.”
Elsewhere, Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant temporarily lost all offsite power.
In Russia, two people died in Saratov after a drone strike hit a residential building.
Meanwhile, Germany hosted US and Ukrainian negotiators ahead of a peace summit in Berlin.
