Russian drone kills Southern Ukrainian The port city of Odessa, overnight, killed two people and injured at least 17, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Meanwhile, three-attack helicopters and an anti-aircraft missile system were destroyed in the Russian-coach peninsula.
The Ukraine’s Security Service Agency said on Saturday that special drone deployed to attack Kirosekay Military Airfield.
“Available data multi-purpose and attack helicopters Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28, as well as self-powered anti-ai-aercraft missiles and gun complex panty-S1 indicate the destruction of Pantir-S1,” according to the official, who spoke about the operation on condition of oblivion.
In Odessa, a drone slipped into a residential tower block in the city, causing damage to the three floors and implicating the inhabitants, emergency services. The two killed in the attack were a married couple, according to the regional village Oleh Kipe, who said that three children were among the injured.
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There was no immediate comment from Moscow. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, more than 40 Ukrainian drones were shot overnight and on Saturday morning at Western Russia and Kremlin-Kimi Crimea.
Long distance drone attacks There has been a hallmark of war, now in its fourth year. The race by both sides to develop rapidly sophisticated and deadly drones has transformed the war into a test ground for new weapons.
The Ukrainian drone has pulled some amazing tricks. In early June, about one third of the Moscow strategic bombing fleet was destroyed or damaged in a secret Ukrainian operation, with a cheap drone secretly seen in the Russian region.
Small, short-grains drones are used by both sides on the battlefield and in areas close to about 620-mile front line.
The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in a report published on Thursday that a short distance drone attacks killed at least 395 citizens and injured 2,635 in the beginning of the war in February 2022 and April 2025. About 90% of the attacks were by the Russian Armed Forces, this reported.
More than 13,300 civilians have died and more than 34,700 were injured in the war, the High Commissioner of the United Nations for human rights said in the June 11 report.