Residents of the nine-story building damaged by the drone are being allowed to retrieve their belongings

Employees of the municipal guard began to let residents of a nine-story building on Oleksandr Kutuzakiy Street, which was hit by a Russian drone, pick up their belongings.

This was reported by an Intenta correspondent.

Earlier, the head of the Prymorskyi District Administration of Odesa, Marat Korolev, explained that the residents of the building were not allowed in because of uncertainty about their safety. The fact is that as a result of the hit, the structures of three floors of the second entrance - 6, 7 and 8 - completely collapsed, and the supporting walls, stairwells and ceilings were damaged.

Experts conducted a technical inspection of the building and assessed its condition as unstable, with a gradual vertical subsidence of the floor slabs.

The Commission for Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies recognized the second entrance as an emergency, as the building may partially collapse. All residents of the building were evacuated. They were offered temporary accommodation with relatives, friends or community centers.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, the residents of the building said that after the hit, representatives of the municipality did not contact them in any way and limited themselves to posting guards and brewing the doors. Later, the applicants reported that the officials got in touch and provided the necessary explanations.

Two days after the hit, on July 26, a balcony on the ninth floor of the same high-rise collapsed. A massive drone attack on Odesa on July 24 damaged residential buildings, causing large-scale fires and destruction, including in a high-rise building. At least three people were injured, five were rescued from the rubble, and the city suffered significant damage to its civilian infrastructure.

A nine-story residential building sustained the most damage. In one of the entrances, apartments from the 5th to the 8th floor were completely destroyed, and fires broke out on the 5th and 6th floors. Five people were rescued from the blocked apartments, and 33 others were evacuated. The State Emergency Service set up an Unbreakable Point near the building, and psychologists from the State Emergency Service and the National Police worked with the residents.

The rubble was difficult to clear because of the high probability of collapse - the movement of structures is recorded by special seismographic equipment. Dog handlers were engaged to search for possible victims.

In the evening of the same day, rescuers removed the body of the deceased from the rubble of the high-rise building. The victim was 32 years old.

Кирило Бойко