On the night of March 2, Russian the drone hit a 9-story building sleeping area of the city. Part of the entrance to 18 apartments was destroyed. Rescuers worked on the spot for two days, clearing the debris.
The search operation at the place where the Russian drone hit the Odessa high-rise building was completed late in the evening of March 3.
As a result of the enemy attack, 20 people were injured, including a pregnant woman and a child, three of them are in the hospital.
The enemy killed 12 people, five of them are children: 4-month-old Timofey, 7-month-old Liza, 3-year-old Mark, 8-year-old Zlata and Serhiychyk, who was about to turn 10 in July.
Three people are in hospital treatment, two are in intensive care, their general condition is serious. Another person is being treated in the trauma department in a moderate condition.
Chronology of the rescue operation: what is known and photos from the scene of the tragedy
On the night of March 2, the Russians fired a drone at a residential building in Odesa. On the afternoon of March 2, it became known about 5 dead people, among whom a small child was found.
On the evening of March 2, rescuers in Odesa unblocked the bodies of a mother with a three-month-old baby. At that time, it became known that seven people died as a result of a nighttime Russian attack on a high-rise building.
As of the morning of March 3, the number of victims in Odesa has increased, ten people are known to have died. The State Emergency Service confirmed the death of another child.
The body of a woman was discovered under the rubble, and the body of a baby was found next to her - the child was not even a year old. The mother tried to cover her 8-month-old child. Tried to save. They were found in a tight embrace...
A military family with many children died as a result of a drone attack in Odesa.
They met in the service, later the woman resigned to take care of her newborn daughter. On February 29, she turned only seven months old. Tatiana had two more children from her previous marriage: 9-year-old Serhiy and 8-year-old Zlata.
Later they were found. The bodies of two children — 10-year-old Serhiyk and his 8-year-old sister Zlata — were pulled from the rubble on the evening of March 3.
Also among the victims of the Russian attack were three men aged 35, 40 and 54 and two women aged 73 and 31. In addition, it was known about 8 wounded. One of the victims, a 61-year-old woman, died in the hospital.
Rescuers were contacted by 3 people who were on the lists of probable persons who may be under the rubble.
Head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of the South, Nataliya Gumenyuk told that Russia could have used modified drones with enhanced warheads, which caused large-scale destruction of a residential building in Odessa. The enemy launched the UAV at a low altitude, so it is more difficult for air defense to detect the enemy object and shoot it down.
"Experts are working to assess what happened: both the type of impact and the remains of the drone. It is not excluded that the combat unit could have been reinforced." - said the head of the United Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of the South Natalya Gumenyuk.
For Odesa, this is the most terrible tragedy during the time of the invasion. A wound that hurts more and more over time. According to the number of victims, it is considered the largest during the entire period of the full-scale conflict.
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