A firefighter works at the site of an apartment building hit during a Russian drone and missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on August 30, 2025.
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Russia’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 21 Ukrainian drones, the Russian Defence Ministry reported on Sunday (August 31, 2025) after an overnight attack.
Eleven drones were downed over the Volgograd region in southern Russia, while the rest were destroyed over the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions in Russia’s southwest, the Ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.
Russian overnight drone attack cuts power to thousands in Odesa, Ukraine says
A Russian drone attack overnight damaged four power facilities near the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, leaving more than 29,000 customers without electricity on Sunday morning, the region’s governor and power firm DTEK said.
Hardest hit was the port city of Chornomorsk, just outside Odesa, where residential houses and administrative buildings were also damaged, said Oleh Kiper, the Governor of the broader Odesa region, on the Telegram messaging app.
“Critical infrastructure is operating on generators,” Mr. Kiper said, adding that one person had been injured as a result of the attack.
This comes in the wake of a large aerial attack launched by Russia on Saturday (August 30, 2025), two days after a rare airstrike on central Kyiv killed 23 and damaged European Union diplomatic offices as U.S.-led efforts to end the three-year war staggered.
The attacks came less than two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump met Russia’s Vladimir Putin for a summit in Alaska, a meeting that marked the end of Mr. Putin’s diplomatic isolation in the West but yielded few details on how the war might end.
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Published – August 31, 2025 11:09 am IST