On the night of today, January 17, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with kamikaze drones of the “Shahed” type.
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The enemy concentrated the main efforts of the drone attack on attacks on Odessa. Kamikaze drones entered at a critically low altitude from the Black Sea, the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine reported.
As a result, in the Odessa region, 11 drones were shot down while approaching the coast, the vast majority fell into the sea. However:
- debris from several downed drones and a blast wave damaged apartment buildings, shops, and private cars of citizens in the Primorsky district of Odessa;
- A fire broke out in several locations – apartments and cars of civilians in the city were burning.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fires. Three people were injured and received medical assistance, the statement said.
The State Emergency Service of the Odessa region notes that as a result of an enemy attack in the Odessa region, a fire occurred: a gas pipe;
- four parked cars;
- balconies on the third and fourth floors and an apartment on the second floor of a five-story residential building with a total area of 50 sq. m.
- Eight cars were also damaged by the blast wave.
130 people were evacuated, and a mobile heating center was deployed on site. State Emergency Service psychologists provided assistance to local residents. The facade of the house on an area of 100 m2 was partially destroyed, the report says.
Source: Racurs
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