Burning apartments, destroyed houses — the consequences of Russia's night attack on Odesa region
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During four hours, from midnight to dawn, Russians attacked Odesa region with drones. Fortunately, there were no casualties or injuries.
This was reported by Oleh Kiper, Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration.
What do we know
Most of the Shaheds were destroyed by Air Defense Forces. In Chornomorsk, apartments on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors caught fire as a result of the attack. The fire covered an area of 100 square meters.
In the Odesa district, a drone damaged the ceiling and walls of an administrative and production building, causing a fire over an area of 50 square meters.
Both fires were promptly extinguished by the State Emergency Service. Another drone crashed in an open area without detonation.
Details of the battle
At approximately 1 a.m., the Ukrainian Air Force reported a threat of UAVs attack in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, which could lead to air defense operations. The airstrike was called off at 5:27 a.m.
The Air Force reports that from 7:00 p.m. on Monday to 08:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the enemy attacked the Odesa region with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 19 attack UAVs. All the enemy drones were eliminated by the Air Defense Forces of the Odesa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia and Ternopil regions. Eighteen of them were downed by aviation, anti-aircraft missile, mobile firing and electronic warfare units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
As a reminder, explosions were heard in Odesa at night.
A loud explosion was also heard in Odesa in the evening of October 7.
