On the evening of March 20, Russian forces attacked Odesa with drone strikes. More than 15 explosions were heard in the city. A shopping mall and shops caught fire, and a high-rise building was damaged. Three teenagers were injured.
Rescuers reported this.
Mayor Gennady Trukhanov reported explosions in the southern districts of the city.
More than 70 rescuers took part in extinguishing the fires. 22 units of fire equipment were involved.
On the morning of March 21, utility workers began working on the roads.
Local emergency power outages occurred in the Primorsky, Peresypsky, and Kyivsky districts of Odesa.
Damage to commercial and industrial buildings, service stations and cars was also recorded in the Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi districts. In one of the resort districts of the Odessa region, buildings were destroyed and caught fire on the territory of a non-working children's camp. The fire was extinguished.
As Apostrophe reported, on the evening of March 11, Russia launched a missile strike on the Odesa seaport, killing sailors.