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KIEV (Reuters) – Two people were killed, eight were injured and six are still missing after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odessa on Saturday, authorities said.
“Russia continues to fight civilians… An enemy drone attacked a residential building in Odessa. 18 apartments were destroyed,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post.
A video posted by Zelenskiy showed an apartment building several stories high blown out, and dozens of rescue workers struggling to cut through a sea of debris on the ground.
According to Zelensky, the drone was a Martyr, a large, winged kamikaze drone supplied by Iran. Russia launched several thousand of these against targets inside Ukraine throughout the war.
Odessa regional governor Oleh Kiper said at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) that work to clear debris was continuing and that one person had been pulled out alive, who was possibly in the basement at the time of the attack.
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Ukraine’s Suspilne public broadcaster quoted local prosecutors as saying six people were still missing.
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(Reporting by Max Hunder; Editing by Jason Neely)
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