On Monday evening, May 2, the Russians launched a missile strike on Odessa . It is known that there are dead and wounded, including children.
The shelling was reported by the head of the Odessa regional military administration Maxim Marchenko.
The strike was “on one of the infrastructure facilities,” he wrote. According to him, it was immediately known that there were dead and wounded, but the exact number was still unknown.
Later, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Russians aimed at the dormitory building. A 14-year-old boy was killed and a 17-year-old girl was injured.
A spokesman for the Odessa regional military administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, said rescuers were still dismantling the debris, so the exact number of victims was not yet known.
In addition, during a telethon, Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said that the church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate also suffered from the shelling. The roof of the building was demolished.
On May 2, the South Command reported Russian activity in the air on the eve of the shelling.
So, according to them, in the Odessa region brought down the Russian drone “FORPOST”.
This drone is a licensed copy of the Israeli Searcher MkII and in the base version is capable of reconnaissance at altitudes up to 5 km for 16 hours with a range of up to 400 km.
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