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The Russian army has the South Ukrainian port city at night Odessa attacked with fight drones. According to the regional military administrator Oleh Kiper, several residential buildings were met. A fire broke out in one. “Information about possible victims is still clarified,” Kiper wrote on the Telegram platform. Warehouses were also damaged in the port, said Mayor Hennadij Truchanow.
Air alarm was triggered in the capital Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities at night. According to the air defense, larger floors had flown into the Ukrainian airspace. There were initially no further information on possible goals of the combat drones.
Russia grabs the Ukraine reinforced with so-called Kamikaze drones. The attacks are usually done at night to make the aim of visualizing the goals more difficult. In addition, the civilian population is surprised by the nightly attacks in their sleep.
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