site.btaOdesa Drone Attack Injures Two, Regional Governor Kiper Says

An 11-year-old boy and a man were injured in an overnight mass drone attack on Odesa, Odesa Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Kiper said on Monday.

Three residential buildings in Kyivskyi District and Prymorskyi District in the Ukrainian Black Sea city were damaged after drone strikes, Kiper said.

“One of the buildings in Prymorskyi District has been destroyed. The other two have damaged facades, roofs and glazing. Local fires that broke out were quickly extinguished,” Kiper said.

Odesa City Military Administration Head Serhii Lysak said a lyceum and a kindergarten were damaged in one of the city’s districts. Emergency and municipal services are working on the ground to repair the damage.

Bulgarians in Odesa Region number more than 150,000 and are the third largest community, based on Ukraine’s latest official census. About 50,000 to 60,000 Bulgarians live in Odesa itself. The largest concentrated Bulgarian population is in Bolhrad District, Izmail District and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District.