04 March 2025

Odesa Under Attack: Russians Strike City with Drones, 4 Injured

(Photo: Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office)

On March 4, tram route No. 18 was temporarily suspended in Odesa, and tram No. 17 will run a shortened route - Kulykove Pole - 6th station of the Big Fountain.

However, according to the press service of the municipality, the city's educational institutions are provided with heat and light and operate in a normal mode.

On the evening of March 3, Russians attacked Odesa with Shahed-136 drones. As a result of the evening Russian shelling of Odesa, four people were injured, two of them were hospitalized. Three people, residents of private houses, sustained shrapnel wounds and fractured limbs. They were taken to medical institutions in moderate condition. Another person, who was in the business center at the time of the attack, sustained a concussion.

Energy infrastructure facilities, residential buildings, the business center, and the townspeople's cars were damaged and destroyed.

The Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office has launched a pre-trial investigation into the commission of war crimes (Article 438(1) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Earlier, two civilian vessels were damaged by a Russian ballistic missile in the port of Odesa on March 1, and two port workers were injured.

The day before, the training base of the Chornomorets football club in Sauvignon suffered significant damage on February 28 as a result of another Russian air attack.

On the night of February 24, 2025, Russian troops again struck at the civilian infrastructure of the Odesa district using attack drones.

As a result of the February 19 attack, 14 schools, 13 kindergartens, and more than 500 residential buildings in a large neighborhood were left without electricity and heating.

On February 13, around 18:10, Russia launched a missile attack on a port infrastructure facility in Odesa. It has been preliminarily established that the attack was carried out by an Iskander-M ballistic missile.

Кирило Бойко

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