At least seven people were killed and dozens were injured in Russian missile and drone attacks on residential areas in Ukraine’s south over the weekend.
Two people, were killed and over 14, including three children, were injured when a Russian drone struck a 21-storey residential building in Black Sea cost city of Odessa in southwestern Ukraine on Saturday, regional governor Oleh Kiper said. Footage from the cite of the incident showed firefighters battling the fire and rescuing resident from under the rubbles of the high-rise building.
Earlier, on Friday, a Russian missile strike on an infrastructure facility killed five people and injured twenty-five others on south-eastern Samar region. This was the second strike on the industrial city in the past three days. Regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on Telegram app that four of the injured were in a critical condition, without giving further details.
The attack came amid destruction of four Russian military aircraft in Russia’s Volgograd region around 900 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. In a statement on Telegram app, the Security Service of Ukraine, which claimed responsibility for the attack, stated that four SU-34 planes, as well as technical-operational facilities where different warplanes are serviced and repaired were targeted in the operation.
