November 2024, like all of the previous more than 30 months, was extremely difficult and tragic for Odesa Oblast: attacks by Russian terrorists destroyed homes, damaged infrastructure, and killed and injured residents of Odesa and Odesa Oblast. On 19 November 2024, 1,000 days had passed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since 24 February 2022, Russian shelling in Odesa Oblast has killed 424 people, including 12 children. Another 772 people have been injured, including 55 children. Odesa Oblast, like all of Ukraine, has endured despite every ordeal and continues to fight for freedom and a peaceful future. We remember every hero and every victim.
We collect facts about the Russian Federation’s crimes against nature in Odesa and Odesa Oblast during the war: environmental pollution caused by explosions and damage to infrastructure, contamination of air, water and soil with toxic substances, destruction of ecosystems in protected natural areas and conservation areas of international importance, and more. The information will be updated daily, so please send any facts known to you to: zeleniy.list1@gmal.com
07.11.2024
At night, the enemy attacked Odesa with strike drones. Falling debris damaged the facade and glazing of an 11-storey residential building, 14 parked cars and a gas pipeline, without causing a fire. Glazing in two nearby five-storey buildings was also damaged.
A 30-year-old man sustained minor injuries; doctors provided assistance at the scene.
08.11.2024
Russian terrorists carried out a massive drone attack on Odesa district. Civilian infrastructure was damaged and people were injured.
As a result of the strike-drone attack in Odesa and the district, private homes were damaged and several caught fire. Windows were blown out and a facade was damaged at one of Odesa’s educational institutions. Shrapnel damage also caused depressurisation and ignition of two gas pipes in Odesa. Windows were shattered in a number of buildings. During today’s attack on Odesa, Lyceum No. 125, one of the city’s oldest schools, and 15 private houses were damaged.
Two people were injured.
09.11.2024
At night, the enemy again attacked Odesa and the district with strike drones. As a result of the Russian attack on Odesa district, apartment buildings in two residential complexes, private houses, warehouse premises of a private enterprise and dozens of private cars were damaged. Thirteen people were injured, including two children born in 2020 and 2008. Eight of the injured were hospitalised, while the others received assistance at the scene. State Emergency Service psychologists assisted 25 people, including one child.
A drone crash caused a large fire in a residential complex in the urban-type settlement of Avanhard: about 15 cars caught fire and residential buildings were damaged. Five people were injured, including one child.
Windows were blown out in three apartment-building blocks in Odesa. A private house was destroyed in the enemy attack and subsequently caught fire. An entire family was affected: the father and his 16-year-old son are in hospital in moderate condition; the mother, unfortunately, was killed.
10.11.2024
Russian terrorists again carried out a massive drone attack on Odesa and the district. Civilian infrastructure was damaged. The strike-drone attack damaged residential buildings, shops, garages and cars in Odesa. Fires broke out at several locations.
Two people were injured as a result of the enemy shelling. They were hospitalised in moderate condition.
Damaged infrastructure:
– 25 garage premises;
– 2 passenger cars;
– 9 trucks;
– a market: 10 kiosks and 2 shops;
– 6 private residential houses, 2 of which were destroyed;
– a petrol station.
Over the past three days, the enemy launched 54 strike drones at Odesa and the district.
14.11.2024
Russian terrorists again carried out a massive drone attack on Odesa and the district. A woman was killed in Odesa as a result of the strike-drone attack.
Eight people were reported injured. Among them was a nine-year-old boy who was in hospital in moderate condition. Among the injured adults, a 22-year-old man was in serious condition; the others, in moderate condition, were admitted to medical facilities in the city and region.
The attack destroyed an apartment building in central Odesa, caused fires in apartments, damaged high-rise buildings and about three dozen passenger cars, and started fires on the premises of a public institution and in a two-storey building.
The enemy shelling also damaged a main district-heating pipeline. The boiler house was temporarily shut down and repair work began. The damaged heating-network branch supplied 220 apartment buildings, home to 40,000 residents, as well as seven kindergartens and four schools. The boiler house also served one of Odesa’s maternity hospitals. At that time, 28 women who had recently given birth and 22 newborns were there. The facility has air conditioners, heaters, a powerful generator and sufficient fuel reserves, so the maternity hospital can heat itself autonomously using its own resources.
17.11.2024
A massive combined strike targeted all regions of Ukraine. During the night and morning, Russian terrorists used various types of drones, including Shaheds, as well as cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles: Zircons, Iskanders and Kinzhals. In total, about 120 missiles and 90 drones were launched. Our air-defence forces destroyed more than 140 aerial targets.
The enemy targeted our energy infrastructure across Ukraine. Unfortunately, facilities were damaged by direct hits and falling debris.
Russian occupiers launched 48 aerial targets at Odesa region during the 17 November strike. The enemy attack damaged Odesa Oblast’s energy infrastructure.
The region experienced disruptions to heat, water and electricity supplies. Emergency power cuts were introduced on Ukrenergo’s instructions. Hospitals and other critical-infrastructure facilities operated using generators.
The Russian shelling also caused fires in three private homes, while another four houses were damaged.
State Emergency Service psychologists assisted local residents.
Two Ukrenergo employees were killed in Odesa Oblast as a result of the enemy attack — 41-year-old Dmytro Kaminnyi and 44-year-old Maksym Sharhorodskyi. The men were experienced specialists who had devoted many years to working in the energy sector. Their daughters, aged 10 and 14, were left without their fathers.
The situation with heating, water and electricity supplies in the region remained difficult for several days. The situation was most difficult in Odesa and Odesa district.
18.11.2024
Russian terrorists carried out a missile attack on Odesa. Civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, was damaged.
Eleven people were killed in the Russian missile strike on central Odesa, including medical workers, police officers and civilians.
Fifty-five people were injured, 23 of whom were hospitalised, including three children in moderate condition. Five adults were in serious condition, and two had limbs torn off.
The situation in the region remained difficult because of the extensive infrastructure damage on 17 November. Restoration work continued. Electricity had already been restored in six districts of the region and remained partially unavailable in Odesa district. Centralised water and heat supplies had been restored in Odesa.
Hospitals and other critical-infrastructure facilities were supplied with generators. A total of 674 Points of Invincibility were opened.
The number of injured currently stands at 55. Twenty-three people remain in hospital, including three children in moderate condition. Five adults are in serious condition, and two have lost limbs. During the night, one of the injured police officers went into cardiac arrest, but our remarkable doctors were able to revive him.
The enemy attacked Odesa with an Iskander-M ballistic missile. The intercepted enemy missile fell into a residential area of the city’s Prymorskyi district. In addition, at 11:45, air-defence systems shot down an enemy Orlan-10 UAV on approach to Odesa; it was presumably conducting reconnaissance.
25.11.2024
On 25 November 2024, the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out a missile strike on central Odesa, preliminarily using an Iskander-M ballistic missile. Eleven people were injured. One woman was in serious condition; the other injured people, in moderate condition, were taken to medical facilities.
The missile strike damaged civilian infrastructure: residential buildings, cars, a dental clinic, a beauty salon, shops, flower shops and residents’ vehicles. Two educational institutions — a school and a university sports hall — were also damaged. Windows and doors were blown out there. Fortunately, teachers and students were in shelters at the moment of the strike.
According to Odesa City Council, 25 apartment buildings were affected, 71 apartments were damaged, 118 windows were blown out in residents’ apartments and 73 windows in common areas. More than 100 square metres of roofing were destroyed on one building. Gas supply was temporarily suspended in several buildings.
In the second half of the day, the occupiers again attacked Odesa Oblast. An enemy missile struck a field in the south of the region. Fortunately, people and infrastructure facilities were not harmed.
28.11.2024
Three local residents were injured in an attack in Odesa district, including a 16-year-old boy. All of them sustained minor injuries.
At least 18 private houses, a gas pipeline, outbuildings and vehicles were damaged in Odesa district.
A garage caught fire in Odesa. Rescuers extinguished the blaze.
In addition, a 26-year-old woman who had been injured in the 8 November drone attack died in hospital today from her injuries. Doctors did everything possible, but unfortunately they were unable to save the Odesa resident.
29.11.2024
Russian terrorists attacked Odesa Oblast with strike drones. Seven people were injured in the attack. Four of them were hospitalised, including one woman in serious condition; the others were in moderate condition. Three injured people received assistance at the scene. In three settlements of Odesa district, 13 residential and country houses, garages, railway infrastructure, outbuildings, a gas pipe and a vehicle were damaged.
