Russia conducted a drone attack on Ukraine, injuring nine people in Odesa, including four children. The injured, including two infants, were hospitalized along with three adults. The attack damaged several residential buildings, causing fires and damaging at least 14 apartments. Ukraine s air force reported that Russia launched 16 attack drones and two short-range Iskander ballistic missiles. Air defense systems intercepted 15 drones in Odesa, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, and Kyiv, with all drones targeting Kyiv destroyed. Wreckage from a downed drone damaged a commercial building in Mykolaiv.
Ukraine said Thursday that air defence systems in the capital Kyiv and other locations across the country had downed dozens of Iranian-designed drones launched by Russian forces in Moscow's latest overnight barrage.
Ukrainian officials said today that Russia had launched a "massive" drone attack on its cities and infrastructure overnight, warning that Moscow could be escalating its strikes ahead of winter.
Russia launched a combined drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Sunday, targeting chiefly the southern parts of the Odesa region and hitting an agriculture facility there, Ukraine's Air Forces said on the Telegram messaging app.