Two injured in Russian air attack on Odesa, Ukraine officials say


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  • Sunday, 10 Nov 2024

A view shows a residential house heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine, in this handout picture released November 10, 2024. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa region/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) - At least two people were injured and buildings were damaged in an overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine's southern region of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

"The enemy has once again launched a massive attack on our region," the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region said on its social media account. "Garages with cars and property were on fire, residential buildings, shops were damaged."

Oleh Kiper, governor of the region on the Black Sea coast, said, without providing further detail, that the attack caused some fires.

The scale of the attack was not immediately clear.

Video footage posted by the emergency services showed firefighters combing in the dark through a pile of a building debris and an apartment building with blown-out windows, while residents gathered in front.

There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attack. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022, but thousands of civilians have since died, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.

(This story has been corrected to fix the year of Russian invasion to 2022 in paragraph 6)

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by William Mallard)

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