Three dead and at least 13 injured in overnight Russian strikes in the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Kryvyi Rihlocal authorities announced on Saturday according to the AFP agency. Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the shooting down of 155 Ukrainian drones over several regions of the country. One child was killed by a drone in the Yaroslavl regionwrites TASR.
The port city of Odessa in the south of Ukraine became the target of a large-scale drone attack that hit residential areas, an industrial area and a maternity hospital. The head of the military city administration, Serhij Lysak, said that 11 people, including a child, were injured in Odessa. One person later succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
Two men were killed and two were injured in the drone strike at an industrial enterprise in Kryvyi Rih in the Dnepropetrovsk region were killed, announced the head of the regional military administration Olexander Ganža. According to him, fires broke out on the spot.
Ukraine also carried out drone attacks at night. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense systems shot down a total of 155 drones over several areas, including Moscow and Yaroslavl.
In the Russian city of Yaroslavl, Ukrainian drones attacked the sixth largest oil refinery in Russia, the BBC website reported, referring to images published on the Internet. The head of the region, Mikhail Yevrayev, said that more than 30 drones were shot down in the area. According to him, one child became the victim of the attack, his parents suffered critical injuries a their neighbor was also injured.
