In the first month of 2024, the Russian army’s terror of Odesa continued. Russian forces practised the accuracy of missile and drone strikes on residential buildings and civilians.
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At night, the Southern Defence Forces, using their air-defence units, shot down all eight enemy Shahed-131/136 drones that the Russians launched from the Black Sea toward Odesa Oblast and Mykolaiv Oblast.
Seven UAVs were destroyed over Odesa Oblast by air defenders from Air Command South, the Navy’s combined-force grouping and mobile fire groups, as well as other components of the Defence Forces; another one was destroyed over Mykolaiv Oblast.
Debris from one of the downed UAVs fell in an open area of Odesa district and caused a fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished. There was no destruction and no one was injured.
17.01.2024
At night, the Russian army attacked Odesa with drones. Eleven drones were shot down over the region. Most of them fell into the water, but debris from several struck civilian facilities. Three people were injured.
This was reported by the Southern Defence Forces, the Odesa Regional Military Administration and the city council.
As a result of the Russian attack, heating networks were damaged and 58 buildings in Odesa were left without heating. In total, the overnight attack on Odesa damaged 10 buildings, 124 apartments, more than 200 windows and 94 balconies, the city council reported. The buildings have gas, water and electricity. Heating is unavailable because a heating main and a heat chamber were damaged.
After the overnight drone attack on 17 January, the Russian army attacked Odesa Oblast with Oniks missiles before dawn, and strikes were recorded.
This was reported by the Southern Defence Forces of Ukraine.
The missiles struck agricultural land and an agricultural enterprise in Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi districts.
24.01.2024
On the evening of 24 January, air-raid sirens sounded in Odesa Oblast, followed by explosions. The enemy attacked the southern regions in two waves with Shahed-131/136 UAVs.
According to the Southern Defence Forces, air defence units shot down ten UAVs over the region. One of the downed drones struck a partially occupied newly built high-rise in Odesa’s Khadzhibeyskyi district and caused a fire. Several apartments were damaged; one person suffered burns and was hospitalised.
Another intercepted drone pierced the roof of a two-storey residential building in the city’s Prymorskyi district. Another UAV fell in the same residential neighbourhood, next to an apartment building damaged in the previous attack. The blast wave shattered windows in buildings, completely burned out a car parked in the courtyard and damaged several others. Four people were injured and received assistance at the scene. Rescuers freed one of the injured people from the rubble.
A warehouse at a furniture factory in Odesa’s industrial district was also hit. A man who was cycling nearby was injured by fragments of various objects and thrown to the ground by the blast wave. He received medical assistance.
As a result of the overnight Russian attack, 177 apartments were damaged in two districts of Odesa.
