site.btaDrone Attack on Odesa Damages Civilian Infrastructure

A drone attack on Odesa on the night between Wednesday and Thursday caused damage to civilian infrastructure, but fortunately, no one was killed, Odesa Province Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram.

According to Kiper, the attack damaged an apartment building under construction, in which windows were smashed. The roof, ceiling and windows of a local school were affected too.

"All competent authorities are working. Law enforcers are cataloguing the effects of yet another crime committed by the Russians," the governor said.

According to information from the Ukrainian defence forces, a college in Odesa was hit in the attack. "Two police patrol officers, who were on their way to the scene to aid citizens, sustained injuries. They are hospitalized, their condition is stable," the defence forces wrote on Telegram.

Odesa Province is home to the third largest community of expatriate Bulgarians, numbering more than 150,000 people, according to an official population census in Ukraine in 2001. Between 50,000 and 60,000 Bulgarians live in the provincial capital Odesa. Bulgarians in the province are concentrated in the districts of Bolhrad, Izmail and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.