{"id":1460578,"date":"2024-03-04T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1460578"},"modified":"2024-03-04T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:35:00","slug":"russian-strike-rocks-ukraines-odesa-after-rare-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/russian-strike-rocks-ukraines-odesa-after-rare-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg\/1460578\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Strike Rocks Ukraine’s Odesa After Rare Drone Attack On St. Petersburg\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Strike Rocks Ukraine’s Odesa After Rare Drone Attack On St. Petersburg\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Russia’s military may have its sights set on Ukraine’s key southern port city of Odesa next. On Saturday a wave of drone and artillery strikes reportedly killed at least<\/a> 11 people.<\/p>\n

According to Ukraine government officials<\/a>, “Eight were confirmed dead, including a child and a baby, after an overnight drone strike on the southern port city of Odesa.”<\/strong> Two more bodies were said to have been found on Sunday. A direct drone strike appears to have destroyed a residential apartment block.<\/p>\n

Port city of Odesa, via UNESCO<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Zelensky in the attack aftermath said that ongoing aerial strikes like these are why Kiev urgently needs additional batteries of advanced anti-air defense systems.<\/p>\n

“Russia continues to hit civilians,” Zelensky said in a statement on social media. “We need more air defenses from our partners<\/strong>. We need to strengthen the Ukrainian air shield to add more protection for our people from Russian terror. More air-defense systems and more missiles for air-defense systems save lives,” he said.<\/p>\n

The country’s Interior Minister Igor Klymenko described that in\u00a0Odesa, “a nine-story building was destroyed<\/strong> as a result of an attack by Russian terrorists” – as stated on Telegram. There have been local reports that debris from an Iranian-made drone<\/strong> was recovered.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Ukraine’s cross-border attacks on Russian territory have continued to intensify. On Saturday there was a rare Ukrainian drone attack that reached all the way to St. Petersburg, reportedly striking a residential building in the\u00a0Krasnogvardeisky district.<\/p>\n

Further, Russia’s defense ministry said that overnight a large wave of 38 drones were intercepted over the Crimean peninsula. According to fresh reporting Sunday, some of the drones may have gotten through<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Russian-occupied Crimea, loud explosions were heard near an oil depot in the early hours of Sunday<\/strong>, according to a local pro-Kyiv Telegram news channel, while Kremlin-installed officials in the territory said that a nearby stretch of highway was closed to traffic for about eight hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

Videos shared with pro-Ukrainian channel Crimean Wind showed explosions lighting up the night sky, followed by loud booms. The channel said they were taken by local residents near Feodosia \u2014 a coastal town in northeastern Crimea. It was not immediately possible to verify the circumstances in which the videos were shot.<\/em><\/p>\n

Below: severely damaged apartment block in Odesa struck by suicide drone…<\/p>\n

#Watch<\/a> | Russian drone crashed into a residential building in Odesa, destroying several apartments, and leaving several people trapped in the rubble.#russia<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9cFzgVSgZX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 DD News (@DDNewslive) March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The last several months have witnessed repeat cross-border attacks on Russian oil and energy infrastructure especially. But Russian civilians have also been killed and injured as a result of drone and missile attacks on the center of Belgorod city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moscow has meanwhile condemned Western powers in addition to Kiev, given Kremlin officials have charged that Western-supplied weapons have been used in these cross-border attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 03\/03\/2024 – 23:35<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russian-strikes-rocks-ukraines-odesa-after-rare-drone-attack-st-petersburg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian Strike Rocks Ukraine’s Odesa After Rare Drone Attack On St. Petersburg\u00a0 Russia’s military may have its sights set on Ukraine’s key southern port city…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-67XI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}