Ukraine-Russia war latest: One dead and fourteen injured after Moscow launches overnight drone strike on Odesa
One person has died and 14 people left wounded after a Russian drone attack hit several high-rise apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
Footage showed emergency services battling fires at one apartment block as they rushed to rescue civilians. They reported at least 10 drone strikes overnight.
Odesa governor Oleh Kiper said there was damage to residential buildings, a higher education institution, a gas pipeline and private cars. Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia reported that Odesa railway station was damaged during the attack, with power wires and rails damaged.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired a total of 86 drones at Ukraine in its latest aerial attack, 70 of which were either shot down or lost.
Ukrainian politicians urged Kyiv’s western supporters to put more pressure on Russia to agree to a ceasefire in light of the latest attacks.
“With no meaningful consequences, Russia feels free to escalate. Every delay, every diluted sanction, every excuse for inaction is taken in Moscow as permission,” economics minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on X, sharing footage of the attack in Odesa.
Moscow’s defence ministry, meanwhile, claimed that Ukraine fired 61 drones at targets across Russia.
