A woman and an eight-month-old infant were found this Sunday in the rubble of the building hit overnight from Friday to Saturday by a Russian drone in Odessa, bringing the death toll to ten.Follow the latest information.
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TEN DEATHS
The death toll from the attack on a building in Odessa rose to ten dead after the bodies of a woman and an eight-month-old baby were discovered this Sunday in the rubble, the region’s governor said.
This Sunday morning, work to “clear” the site of the building collapse was still in progress, emergency services informed.
RELIEF IN ODESSA
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, around a hundred rescuers continued their search to try to pull survivors from the rubble after the Russian strike on a nine-story building in Odessa, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram . According to the same source, around ten people were still missing overnight.
AIR DEFENSE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday reiterated his call on his Western allies to provide more air defense systems, and more quickly, after Russian attacks which left at least eleven dead, including eight in Odessa.
One of its key partners, Germany, faces an unforeseen crisis after its Defense Ministry confirmed the “interception” of exchanges between officers discussing confidential material regarding the war.
In Ukraine, a Russian strike on a nine-story building in the Black Sea port city of Odessa resulted in the deaths of eight people overnight from Friday to Saturday, including two children aged three years and four months, according to a regional official. Eight people were also injured, including two children, according to emergency services.
“These attacks have no military meaning (…) It is about terror, which aims exclusively to destroy lives, to intimidate,” denounced President Zelensky.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday reiterated his call on his Western allies to provide more air defense systems, and more quickly, after Russian attacks that left at least 11 dead, including eight in Odessa. One of its key partners, Germany, faces an unforeseen crisis, after its Defense Ministry confirmed “the interception” exchanges between officers discussing confidential elements concerning the war.
In Ukraine, a Russian strike on a nine-story building in the Black Sea port city of Odessa resulted in the deaths of eight people overnight from Friday to Saturday, including two children aged three years and four months, according to a regional official. Eight people were also injured, including two children, according to emergency services. “These attacks have no military meaning (…) It is about terror, which aims exclusively to destroy lives, to intimidate”, denounced President Zelensky. Images posted on social networks show several floors of a building completely collapsed.
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At the same time, three people were killed in Russian bombings in the regions of Kherson, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia, according to authorities. “The delay in supplying Ukraine with weapons, air defense systems for the protection of our people leads, unfortunately, to such losses. Ukraine does not ask for anything more than what is necessary to protect the life”, underlined Zelensky, judging “impossible to understand” THE “internal political games or disputes (between kyiv’s) partner countries which limit (its) defense” against Russia.
After more than two years of war, the Ukrainian leader daily urges his Western allies to deliver military assistance more quickly, calling in particular for ammunition, more air defense systems and fighter planes.