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Russia Launches Massive Drone and Bomb Waves That Strike Odesa, Kramatorsk and Border Rail

The assault damaged Odesa port infrastructure, disrupted rail links near the Poland border, triggering urgent EU security and political responses.

Overview

  • Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that over the past week Russia launched roughly 78 rockets, about 2,100 attack drones and some 1,700 guided bombs in concentrated waves against Ukraine.
  • Attacks in Odesa injured 24 people and damaged port facilities including a marked search-and-rescue tug, while a Kramatorsk multi-storey building strike and a separate vehicle strike caused deaths and multiple wounded and prompted criminal war‑crimes probes.
  • A drone strike hit a locomotive about two kilometres from the Polish border at Yagodyn, which led Poland to raise air alerts, evacuate people from border crossing points and convene urgent government security meetings.
  • The Ukrainian General Staff reported hundreds of daily frontline engagements, with the Pokrovsk direction among the fiercest sectors, and said defenders have repelled multiple assaults while shooting down or suppressing large numbers of Russian drones.
  • European politicians called for more air-defenses, weapons and tougher sanctions as ministers warned the strikes have cut Odesa port throughput dramatically and pose wider risks to Ukrainian exports and global food security.