KYIV – Two people were killed, eight wounded and six still missing after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa on Saturday, the authorities said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a Telegram post, said: “Russia continues to fight civilians… One of the enemy drones hit a residential building in Odessa. 18 apartments were destroyed.”
In video footage posted by Mr Zelenskiy, an apartment building can be seen with a chunk, several storeys tall, ripped out of it. Dozens of rescuers can also be seen scrambling to cut through a sea of rubble on the ground.
Mr Zelenskiy said the drone was a Shahed, a large, winged kamikaze drone supplied by Iran. Russia has launched several thousand of these throughout the war at targets deep inside Ukraine.
Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper in the morning said work was ongoing to clear the rubble and that a man had been pulled out alive, having likely been in the basement at the time of the strike.
Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne cited local prosecutors as saying six people were still unaccounted for. REUTERS
