...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...’s lousy war execution.
About 1.5 million people in Odessa had no electricity after Iranian-made drones hit two energy facilities, knocking out power to all non-critical infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the situation in the region was "very difficult."
"Unfortunately, the hits were critical, so it takes more than just time to restore electricity... It doesn’t take hours, but a few days, unfortunately," Zelensky said Saturday in his nightly address.
The latest power outage comes as Russia, since October, has increasingly targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones.
A spokesperson for Odessa’s regional administration said the lights would be back on "in the coming days," though complete restoration could take two or three months.