In March 2025, the Russian army’s terror against the civilian population of Odesa Oblast did not stop. The occupying state uses the tactic of terrorising civilians to spread fear among Ukrainians and break their will to resist the enemy. Residential areas were targeted most often, leaving many people without homes.

01.03.2025

The enemy struck Odesa with a ballistic missile. Two people were injured. The attack damaged port infrastructure and a civilian vessel sailing under the flag of the Republic of Panama and belonging to a European company. Two men, both port employees, were wounded.

03.03.2025

The enemy once again launched a massive strike-drone attack on peaceful Odesa. The strike damaged energy infrastructure and forced three district boiler houses in the city to suspend operations. Emergency power outages were introduced in part of the city. Municipal services started generators to keep critical infrastructure, including boiler houses, operating. Additional Points of Invincibility were deployed.

Falling debris and blast waves also damaged two private houses and a business centre. Fires broke out at several locations and were quickly extinguished by firefighters.

Unfortunately, three residents of private houses suffered shrapnel wounds and limb fractures. They were taken to medical facilities in moderate condition. Another person who was in the business centre at the time of the attack suffered a concussion.

04 – 05.03.2025

The terror against the civilian population of Odesa Oblast continues. Russian forces again launched a massive attack on Odesa Oblast. Critical infrastructure in Odesa was damaged, and part of the city was left without electricity, water and heating. All relevant services are working to eliminate the consequences.

Debris from downed enemy drones also damaged private houses in the Odesa suburbs. Fires broke out. State Emergency Service units extinguished them. A man was killed in a Russian drone attack in the Odesa suburbs. A 77-year-old resident of the village of Lymanka died from shrapnel  wounds.

Two people were injured in the attack.

About 30 private houses were damaged in the suburbs.

The enemy also attacked Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district with a ballistic missile. The missile hit an empty sanatorium and the building was almost completely destroyed.

Shelling of Odesa’s Kyivskyi district and the city of Pivdenne on 4 and 5 March caused fires at transformer substations. The fires led to air pollution.

On 2 April, this was reported by the press service of the State Environmental Inspectorate of the South-Western District.

As a result of the fires, 150 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions entered the atmosphere. Environmental damage exceeded UAH 500,000.

Private houses in Odesa’s Kyivskyi district were also damaged by the shelling.

The area of land contaminated with construction waste was 300 square metres. Total environmental damage amounted to UAH 15 million.

06.03.2025

The enemy again launched a massive strike-drone attack on Odesa district. The first air-raid alert in Odesa Oblast lasted from 21:17 to 22:28. The Air Force warned that strike drones were moving from the Black Sea toward Odesa and Chornomorsk.

A second air-raid alert was declared at 02:54 on 7 March and lasted until 07:14. The Air Force reported a group of missiles over the Black Sea heading toward Odesa Oblast/Odesa.

Civilian and energy infrastructure in Pivdenne came under attack. Two people were injured, one of whom was hospitalised. A private two-storey house was destroyed and the glazing of an administrative building was damaged. An energy facility was also hit.

More than 30 houses were damaged by a drone strike in the village of Malodolynske, and at least five of them are uninhabitable.

During the second alert, on the night of 7 March, a missile attack damaged 16 private houses in Podilsk district of Odesa Oblast. State Emergency Service rescuers quickly extinguished the fire. No information about casualties was reported.

07.03.2025

On the evening of 7 March, the Russian Federation attacked Odesa with strike drones. The city’s energy and civilian infrastructure came under attack.

An agricultural machinery hangar, a four-storey industrial building, a petrol station building, a car-parts shop, a vehicle service station, a car dealership and at least eight vehicles were damaged or destroyed. Almost 1,500 local residents were left without electricity.

10 – 11.03.2025

One of the most frightening March nights in Odesa Oblast brought continued strikes on infrastructure and residential areas and continued terror against civilians. On the night of 11 March, the enemy launched a massive strike-drone attack on Odesa.

A number of warehouses belonging to private companies, fuel tanks, a business centre, a garage and an outbuilding on private property were damaged or destroyed, while windows were blown out in nearby private houses.

According to the State Emergency Service, more than one hundred rescuers, volunteers, National Guard personnel and members of local fire brigades worked to eliminate the consequences of the strike.

At about 20:17 on 11 March, the armed forces of the Russian Federation attacked Odesa’s port infrastructure, preliminarily with an Iskander-M ballistic missile.

Infrastructure facilities and a civilian vessel sailing under the flag of the Republic of Barbados were damaged.

Four foreign crew members were killed in the attack. Another crew member and a port employee were injured and taken to hospital.

Environmental specialists calculated the environmental damage caused by the Russian strike on Odesa on the night of 10–11 March.

On 7 April, this was reported by the State Environmental Inspectorate of the South-Western District.

On 10 March 2025, shelling of industrial infrastructure in Odesa’s Khadzhibeyskyi district caused a fire at an operating oil depot. Fuel tanks containing almost 6,000 tonnes burned, releasing into the atmosphere:

• almost 19,600 tonnes of carbon dioxide;
• almost 36 tonnes of carbon monoxide;
• almost 15 tonnes of particulate matter (soot);
• more than 10 tonnes of NMVOCs (a group of chemically diverse organic compounds that may include benzene, ethanol, formaldehyde, cyclohexane, acetone and others);
• almost 8 tonnes of nitrogen dioxide.

Damage caused by air pollution was estimated at more than UAH 416 million. Environmental specialists also recorded contamination of more than 20,000 square metres of land. Damage from this contamination amounted to UAH 626 million.

All collected information was transferred to the Operational Headquarters of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine for inclusion in the unified register of war-related damage.

15.03.2025

On the night of 15 March, the Russian army attacked Odesa Oblast with drones.

In Odesa, a private house was partially destroyed and a passenger car was damaged. In the Odesa suburbs, the roof, windows and doors of a private company building were damaged.

A 61-year-old woman was injured. She suffered facial injuries from glass fragments caused by the blast wave and was hospitalised.

A 53-year-old man was wounded in the attack on Chornomorsk. He was hospitalised in moderate condition.

16.03.2025

During a night-time UAV attack by Russian forces in Odesa district, a disused warehouse caught fire, and a children’s educational facility, a residential building and a shop were damaged. One person was injured. Damage to energy infrastructure left about 500 customers in the Odesa suburbs without electricity.

20 – 21.03.2025

From the evening onward, Russia attacked Ukrainian regions with more than two hundred strike drones and decoy drones. Guided aerial bombs were also used. Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi and Chernihiv regions were hit.

That night saw one of the most massive attacks on Odesa. Terror against civilians by the so-called Russian army continues.

The occupiers’ strikes caused fires in a shopping centre and shops and damaged a multi-storey residential building. Three children were injured.

Local emergency power outages occurred in Odesa’s Prymorskyi, Peresypskyi and Kyivskyi districts.

The attack damaged Tairovske Cemetery. According to preliminary information, 50 graves were damaged, 30 of them completely destroyed.

Toward morning, the enemy attacked a recreational area in one of Odesa Oblast’s resort districts. Buildings on the grounds of a seasonal children’s camp, which has not operated since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, were damaged and caught fire. The fire was quickly extinguished.

The State Environmental Inspectorate of the South-Western District reportedthat shelling in Odesa’s Kyivskyi district caused fires in retail premises and at an industrial enterprise over an area of 3,300 m².

Almost 262 tonnes of carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere, while the damage was estimated at almost UAH 800,000.

These data were transferred to the Operational Headquarters at the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine to form a unified register of environmental damage caused by armed aggression.

28.03.2025

An enemy attack caused fires in garages and an outbuilding and damaged private residential houses. According to preliminary information, one person was injured.

We can state that, as in previous months, the enemy spent hundreds of millions of dollars on such massive terror against civilians and strikes on residential areas and public infrastructure, but failed to achieve its goal — breaking Ukrainians’ will to resist.