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Drone Barrage Pounds Odesa and Kherson, Injuring Civilians and Damaging Homes

Rescue crews are searching a collapsed residential site in Odesa after overnight strikes.

Overview

  • Regional officials reported three people injured in Odesa and two in Kherson after a night of Russian UAV attacks.
  • Odesa authorities said an infrastructure facility, high‑rise blocks, houses, a church, and a kindergarten were damaged, with large fires recorded.
  • Part of a residential building in Odesa’s Khadzhybeiskyi district was destroyed, residents were evacuated, a child was rescued, and people may still be under the rubble.
  • Kherson Oblast recorded strikes on more than two dozen settlements between 06:00 on 26 January and 06:00 on 27 January, damaging three multi‑storey buildings, 18 houses, a mobile tower, and a hotel.
  • Ukrainian reporting described a large drone wave of roughly 165 strike UAVs, including about 100 Shaheds, and air‑raid warnings were issued in Kyiv and several oblasts over a ballistic threat.