The number of buses from other cities has increased in Odesa

The number of buses that Odesa has received from other communities to replace electric vehicles has increased to 27.

This was reported by the press service of the Odesa City Council.

Mariupol community has now joined Mykolaiv, Lviv and Kropyvnytskyi. It should be noted that despite the actual occupation of the city of Mariupol, the Mariupol City Council continues to work in evacuation, and in 2025 the President established the Mariupol City Military Administration.

The mayor's office also reported that another route was introduced in Odesa in addition to the six previous ones. One bus will run from Svobody Avenue to Architektorskaya Street, thus duplicating the tram route No. 27.

The buses that Odesa received from other Ukrainian cities to compensate for the operation of electric transport have been tested and started running in the city on January 5.

On the morning of December 31, the head of the Odesa City Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said that due to a power shortage, trams and trolleybuses in Odesa were not working.

In the evening of the same day, the mayors of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, and Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevych, said they had sent buses to Odesa to replace the trams and trolleybuses that were not working due to the power shortage.

Earlier, Lysak said that the city was expecting 40 buses from various other cities, including 10 buses each from Lviv and Kropyvnytskyi communities, five buses each from Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr, and three buses each from Vinnytsia and Mariupol. The Bila Tserkva community also joined the support.

On the night of December 31, Russians attacked the residential, logistics, and energy infrastructure of Odesa Oblast. As a result of hits in one of the residential buildings, fires broke out in apartments from the second to the sixth floors. The facade on the fifth and sixth floors was partially destroyed. Six people were injured in the attack, including three children. The facades and glazing of several multi-story residential buildings were also damaged.

Кирило Бойко