A Russian drone struck an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa on Saturday. Four people, including a three-year-old child, were killed and eight others injured. Reuters reported this information in a report,
citing the relevant authorities.According to the report, smoke was billowing from the debris strewn across the ground at the scene.A part of the multi-story building was destroyed by the drone strike. Clothes and furniture were seen among the rubble of concrete and steel hanging from the side of the destroyed apartment block
.Svitlana Tkachenko, a resident of a building next to the damaged building, said, ‘My husband quickly ran out to help people…then I saw people running. I understand that people have died there.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post, ‘
Russia continues to fight civilians. An enemy drone has hit a residential building in Odesa. 18 apartments were destroyed.A photo posted by Ukraine’s state emergency service shows rescuers putting the dead baby in a bag. Five people, including children, were rescued alive. They said, ‘It is impossible to forget! It is impossible to
forgive.According to Zelensky, the attack was carried out by an Iranian-supplied Shahed drone. Russia has launched hundreds of thousands of these long-range winged drones during the war to strike targets as far away as the Ukrainian border.
