24 October 2025

Odesa region attacked with guided aerial bombs for the first time

(KAB-500 at the exhibition PHOTO: Allocer)

Russian troops attacked civilian infrastructure in Odesa region with guided aerial bombs for the first time on October 24.

This was reported by the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper.

"During today's air attack, the Russian army used guided aerial bombs for the first time against the civilian infrastructure of our region. This is a new serious threat to Odesa region. Such strikes pose a huge danger to people and can cause significant destruction," he said.

A guided (corrected) aerial bomb (GAB) is a precision weapon. The glide path feature of the CAB allows carrier aircraft to use them without entering the enemy's target air defense zone. The warhead of the bomb can be a concrete-piercing warhead to destroy concrete floors, an explosive warhead, and a high-explosive warhead to hit infantry and equipment, particularly in shelters, with a shock wave.

According to the military, Russia has recently developed a unified interspecies planning munition (UIPM) that can fly over 100 kilometers and even claimed that with a jet engine, the munition can travel 200 kilometers. Ukraine's defense forces have recorded many instances of this weapon being used recently, including attacks in Poltava and Kharkiv.

Earlier, trains traveling in the Odesa direction in the Kirovohrad region were delayed for more than two hours due to Russian shelling. The thing is, however, that the shelling at night damaged the railroad infrastructure and caused fires. The fires were extinguished and no one was injured, but the networks were cut off and trains continued to run with the help of backup diesel locomotives.

Earlier in the night and morning of October 22, Russians also damaged energy and port infrastructure in Odesa region, and residential buildings and social facilities in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.

Кирило Бойко

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