Fire at Odesa Toy Warehouse Releases 206 Tons of CO2 After Attack

Carbon dioxide emissions into Odesa's atmosphere due to a fire at a children's toy warehouse on March 10 amounted to almost 206 tons.

This was reported by the State Ecological Inspectorate of the Southwestern District.

The fire covered 2,600 square meters of the warehouse. The inspectors estimated the amount of environmental damage at UAH 626,800 and forwarded the information to the Operational Headquarters of the State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine to be included in the register of environmental damage caused by armed aggression.

An air attack on Odesa by Russian troops on the night of March 11 resulted in the burning of a children's toy warehouse, a residential building, and a fuel tank. More than 100 rescuers, volunteers, firefighters from the National Guard of Ukraine and local fire brigades were responding to the aftermath of the attack. According to preliminary information, no one was killed or injured.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, on the night of March 11, 2025 (from 19.00 on March 10), the enemy attacked with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 126 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of imitation drones.

Iskander-M and 79 Shahed attack drones and other types of drones were shotdown in Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Kherson regions. 35 enemy imitator drones were lost in the area.

On the evening of March 7, Odesa also came under another attack from the Russians, who launched Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles into the city. The target was civilian and energy infrastructure.

The attack set fire to a hangar with agricultural machinery, a service station, a car shop, solar panels stacked in an open area, and a four-story industrial building.

At least eight cars burned down. The enemy attack left almost 1,500 local residents without electricity.

Кирило Бойко