site.btaDrone Strike Damages Gas Infrastructure in Odesa Region

On the night of August 6, Russian forces carried out a drone strike targeting the Izmail district in Ukraine’s Odesa region using kamikaze UAVs. The attack damaged gas infrastructure facilities and triggered a fire visible from Romania, Oleh Kiper, Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, said on Telegram.

Two thousand five hundred subscribers in the Izmail district were left without gas as a result of damage caused to a gas pipeline by drone attack overnight.

"The enemy attacked the Izmail district with drones during the night, and the fire was extinguished at around 7:30 a.m. Despite the active work of the air defence, the gas infrastructure sustained damages," the regional governor said in a statement.

According to his information, firefighters are now working to release the gas from the system. The fire destroyed the production equipment, Kiper explained.

Emergency response teams are still cleaning up the aftermath from the attack.

Odesa Region is home to the third largest community of expatriate Bulgarians, numbering more than 150,000 people, according to an official population census in Ukraine in 2001. There are between 50,000 and 60,000 Bulgarians in the city of Odesa. Bulgarians in the region are concentrated in the districts of Bolhrad, Izmail and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.